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.

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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.

remember the pain.

Ava. Just wake up. Come

1. me.

No way.

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in this

come back. This is not where you

should be.

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

die, Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You never

***

sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry,

Ava.

warm honey in

to speak but my throat is parched, voice a ragged

presses into my palm. The slight weight of

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on my hand. I turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there,

awake. Relief colors

heavy and thick. “What happened?” The words

my arm. I want to protest

my name, but I’m already gone.

***

returns gradually. The steady beep of a

my skin. An IV pinches the back of

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

back. Her relief washes over

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

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was I out?” I

disuse.

Selene whines softly. We were

worried.

way

you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my other side.

news hits me like a punch to the gut. I struggle to

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

process that leaves

take stock. My limbs

hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and

gown, blankets pooled around my waist. My hair is lank and

I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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through a lot.

to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing. A yawning black hole

to me?”

skin. Warmth flows between us,

thinks your wolf is trying to emerge. Do you feel

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 ears flick as she licks my face, settling into my lap as

way too big for that.

Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is

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

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