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.

remember the pain.

Ava. Just wake up. Come back

1. me.

No way.

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Ava:

here, in this

come back. This is not where you

should be.

here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it doesn’t

die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

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

***

They feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids.

Ava.

Her voice is warm

to speak but my throat is parched, voice a ragged

presses into my palm. The slight weight of

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

colors her tone.

thick. “What happened?” The

nuzzles into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion

my name, but I’m

***

gradually. The steady beep of a heart monitor. The chemical

skin. An IV pinches the back

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

Her relief washes over me.

here. They’re asking me questions, one talking over the

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out?” I rasp, my throat

disuse.

whines softly. We were so

worried.

you okay?” Lucas asks, way too

pipes up,

to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my muscles

and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back to

entire process that leaves me

I take stock.

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

pooled around my waist. My hair

Selene cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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through a lot.

ended up here. Training with Jericho and

happened to

gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of comfort, and the urge to press my cheek into

sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is

with all 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 explain, and her ears flick as she licks my face, settling into my lap as though

not. She’s way too big for that.

be afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This

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been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to be a part of me

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