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

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

1. me.

No way.

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in

back. This is not where you

should be.

serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it

Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

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

***

crack open. They feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes indistinct. White.

Ava.

warm honey in my

throat is parched, voice a

presses into my palm. The

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

colors

thick. “What happened?” The

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

my name, but I’m already gone.

***

a heart monitor. The chemical

sheets rough against my skin. An IV pinches the

into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A

Her relief washes

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

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out?” I rasp, my throat raw

disuse.

weeks, Selene whines softly. We were

worried.

Lucas asks, way

pipes up, from my other side.

the gut. I struggle

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

process that leaves me

take stock. My limbs feel stiff,

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

my waist. My hair

Selene cautions as I waver, dizzy.

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through a lot.

together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho

happened to

skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of

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

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 she’s a lap dog.

too big for

be afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is

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

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