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

Ava. Just wake up. Come back to

1. me.

No way.

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here, in

come back.

should be.

I feel pain, but it doesn’t kill me. It isn’t enough to

won’t die, Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

feeling sorry for yourself. You never died.

***

my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes indistinct. White. Harsh lights.

Ava.

Her voice is warm honey in

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

nose presses into my

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head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes bright

Relief colors

my tongue heavy and thick. “What happened?”

into my arm. I want to

calling my name, but

***

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

sheets rough against my skin. An IV pinches the back of my hand.

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

back. Her relief washes over

and Lisa are here. They’re asking me questions, one talking over the other. It’s painful to my ears.

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I

disuse.

weeks, Selene whines softly. We were

worried.

you okay?” Lucas asks, way too close

feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my

a punch to the gut. I struggle to

Lucas rest their hands on

an entire process that

take stock.

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

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

as I waver, dizzy.

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through a lot.

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

to me?”

reaches for my face, his fingers hesitant and gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of comfort, and the urge to press my cheek into his hand, nuzzling close.

Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying

to run beneath the moon. To be 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

too big for that.

sensing my unease. This is natural

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

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