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

no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come back to

1. me.

No way.

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here, in this hazy

come back. This is not

should be.

feel pain, but it

won’t die, Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You

***

They feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes

Ava.

Her voice is warm

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

into my palm. The

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

awake. Relief colors

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

nuzzles into my arm. I want to

but

***

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

against my skin. An IV pinches the back of

heavy but I force them open. The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles,

relief washes over me.

and Lisa are here. They’re asking me questions, one

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out?” I rasp, my throat raw from

disuse.

Selene whines softly. We were

worried.

way too

Lisa pipes up, from my

news hits me like a punch to the

Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead me

that leaves me exhausted.

take stock. My

connected to an IV pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk,

blankets pooled around my waist. My hair is lank and

as I waver, dizzy.

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through a lot.

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

happened to

against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of comfort, and the urge

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

whole. But now, 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

way too

my unease. This is natural for

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about my life has been natural. Is

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