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

be no pain, Ava. Just wake up.

1. me.

No way.

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peaceful here, in this hazy

to come back. This is not where

should be.

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

die, Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

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

***

scraping against my lids. Everything is

Ava.

Her voice is warm honey in my mind,

but my throat

presses into my palm. The slight weight

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

awake. Relief colors

thick.

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

calling my name, but

***

a heart

An IV pinches the back of my hand.

heavy but I force them open. The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled up beside me, a comforting

back. Her relief washes

They’re asking me questions, one talking over

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I out?” I rasp, my throat raw from

disuse.

softly.

worried.

asks, way too

feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my

punch to the

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

entire process that leaves me

upright, I take stock.

pinches my hand, connected to an IV pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet another IV line in the elbow of my other arm.

waist. My hair is lank and greasy against

Selene cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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through a lot.

my mind back, trying to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing. A

happened to me?”

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

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

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

She’s way too

sensing my

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has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to

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