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.

Ava. Just wake

1. me.

No way.

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here, in this hazy place.

you have to come back.

should be.

this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it doesn’t kill me. It isn’t enough to kill

die, Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

that’s enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry

***

eyes crack open. They feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry,

Ava.

is warm honey in my mind,

speak but my throat is parched, voice a ragged

my

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turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver

colors her

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

now. She nuzzles into my arm. I want to protest

calling my name, but I’m

***

The steady beep of a heart monitor. The chemical scent of disinfectant.

rough against my skin. An IV pinches the back

The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A

Her relief washes over me.

questions, one talking over

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I rasp, my throat

disuse.

softly. We

worried.

okay?” Lucas asks, way too close to

Lisa pipes up, from my

me like a punch to the gut. I struggle to

mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on

an entire process that leaves

take stock. My

with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet another IV line

my waist. My hair is lank and

Selene cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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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.

to

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

sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to

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

too

sensing my unease.

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

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