Tangled

Chapter 112

112 Ava: Waking Up

Darkness.

Light.

So cold.

It burns.

My lungs ache.

Something’s holding me down.

There are whispers. Prayers, I think.

Chaos reigns in this hazy world. Something beeps. incessantly.

I’m sweating. My hands are too warm.

1. up.

What’s that?

… Ava, you…

Who’s that?

can you hear me?

I struggle to reach the voice that calls me,

but

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something sucks me away again.

Frustration simmers, but I’m too tired to fight it.

Ava, you have to wake up.

There it is again.

I know you can hear me, because I can finally hear you.

Hear me? Hear me what? Am I talking?

Yes.

No, I don’t think I’m talking. I’m too tired. My body is crushed beneath the earth. Fire ate every last bit of me. I drowned. The air was sucked away.

You’re alive. You’re asleep in the hospital. You’re just fine. You just need to wake up.

No, no.

No, no, no.

Waking is pain.

the

will be no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come back to

1. me.

No way.

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in this hazy

you have to come back. This is not where

should be.

But I’m here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it

won’t die, Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You never died. Wake. Up!

***

feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids.

Ava.

is warm honey in my

speak but my throat is parched, voice a ragged whisper.

presses into my palm. The slight

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head resting on my hand. I turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there,

awake. Relief colors her

heavy and thick. “What happened?” The words

I want to protest but exhaustion drags me

my name, but I’m already

***

beep of a

rough against my skin. An IV pinches the

The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent

Her relief washes

and Lisa are here. They’re asking me questions, one talking over the other. It’s

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I rasp, my throat raw from

disuse.

Selene whines softly. We were

worried.

asks, way too close to

you feeling?” Lisa pipes

punch to the gut. I

against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead me up until I’m

an entire process that leaves me exhausted.

stock.

bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk,

my waist. My hair is lank

cautions as I waver, dizzy.

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through a lot.

to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho

happened to me?”

my face, his fingers hesitant and gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of comfort, and the urge to press my cheek into his hand,

is trying to

strangeness surrounding my heritage, the idea fills me with trepidation. I flick a glance toward my wolf, disguised as a husky for a reason she has yet to explain, and her ears flick as she licks my face, settling into my lap as though she’s a lap

way too big for

Selene soothes, sensing my unease.

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life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to be

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