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

1. me.

No way.

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here, in

back. This

should be.

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

die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

up. Stop feeling sorry for

***

sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything

Ava.

is warm honey in my

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

wet nose presses into my palm. The slight weight of

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

awake. Relief colors her tone.

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

nuzzles into my arm. I want to

my name, but I’m

***

a heart monitor.

sheets rough against my skin. An IV pinches

focus–white tiles,

back. Her relief washes

asking me questions, one talking over the other. It’s painful to my

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long was I out?” I rasp, my throat raw

disuse.

Selene whines softly. We

worried.

okay?” Lucas asks, way

you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my

me like a punch to the

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

entire process that

stock.

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

waist. My hair is lank and

I

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through a lot.

trying to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the

happened to

skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling

Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to emerge. Do

the 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

She’s way too big for that.

afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my unease.

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my tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa

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