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

1. me.

No way.

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here, in this

back. This is not where

should be.

darkness. I feel pain, but it

die, Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You never

***

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

Ava.

voice is warm honey

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

presses into my palm. The slight

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painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining,

awake. Relief colors

swallow dryly, my tongue heavy and thick.

nuzzles into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion drags me under again.

my name, but I’m

***

a heart

sheets rough against my skin. An IV pinches the back of

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

relief washes over

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

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I out?” I

disuse.

whines softly. We were

worried.

way too

pipes up, from my

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

bracing her body against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead me up

process that leaves me

I take stock.

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

waist. My hair is lank and

I waver, dizzy.

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through a lot.

back, trying to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and

happened to me?”

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

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

strangeness surrounding my heritage, the idea fills me with trepidation. I flick a glance toward my wolf, disguised as a husky for

too big for that.

be afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my

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

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