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 pain.

Just wake up.

1. me.

No way.

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Ava:

here, in

have to come back. This is not where you

should be.

I feel pain, but

Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You never

***

feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes indistinct. White.

Ava.

warm

Grounding. I try to speak but my throat is parched, voice a ragged whisper.

my

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hand. I turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue

colors her tone.

thick. “What happened?” The words scrape out.

nuzzles into my arm. I want to protest but

calling my name, but I’m already

***

steady beep of a heart monitor.

IV

but I force them open. The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled up beside me,

Her relief

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

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I out?” I rasp, my throat raw

disuse.

weeks, Selene whines softly. We

worried.

asks, way too close to

feeling?” Lisa pipes up,

the gut. I struggle to sit up, my muscles

body against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands

that leaves me exhausted.

stock. My limbs feel stiff,

few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet another IV line in the elbow of my other arm.

pooled around my waist. My hair is lank

cautions as I

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through a lot.

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.

happened to me?”

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

know for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to emerge. Do

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

way too

afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my unease.

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tastes like ashes on my tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are

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