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 up. Come

1. me.

No way.

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here, in this

have to come back. This is not where

should be.

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

die, Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

feeling sorry for yourself. You never died. Wake.

***

sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes

Ava.

voice is warm honey

but my throat is

into my palm. The

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my hand. I turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes bright with intelligence and worry.

colors her

my tongue heavy and thick. “What happened?”

now. She nuzzles into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion drags me

but

***

steady beep of a heart monitor. The chemical

against my skin. An IV pinches the back of my hand.

focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled up beside me, a

Her relief washes over me.

one

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I out?” I rasp,

disuse.

softly. We were so

worried.

you okay?” Lucas asks, way too close

you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my

weeks. The news hits me like a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up,

mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands

an entire process that leaves me exhausted.

upright, I take stock. My limbs

One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet another IV

blankets pooled around my waist. My hair is lank and

I waver, dizzy. You’ve been

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through a lot.

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 hole in my memory.

to me?”

skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling

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

trepidation. I flick a glance toward my wolf, disguised as

way too big

soothes, sensing my unease. This

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

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