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.

remember the

be no pain, Ava. Just wake

1. me.

No way.

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Ava:

here, in

to come back. This

should be.

I’m here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it doesn’t kill me.

Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

feeling sorry for yourself. You never

***

They feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids.

Ava.

voice is warm honey in my

to speak but my throat

wet nose presses into my

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painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes

awake. Relief colors

my tongue heavy and thick. “What happened?” The words scrape out.

now. She nuzzles into my arm. I want

name, but I’m already

***

beep of a heart monitor.

IV pinches the back of my

I force them open. The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles,

relief washes

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

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out?” I

disuse.

whines softly. We were so

worried.

Lucas asks, way too

pipes up, from my other side.

me like a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my muscles weak and

rest their hands on my

entire process that

take stock. My

my hand, connected to an IV pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks

in a hospital gown, blankets pooled around my waist. My hair

as I waver, dizzy.

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through a lot.

century. I cast my mind back, trying to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing. A yawning black

to me?”

and gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of comfort, and the

is trying to

a glance toward my wolf, disguised as a husky for a reason she has yet to explain, and

She’s way too big for that.

my unease. This

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my tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to be a part of me

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