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.

no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come

1. me.

No way.

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here, in this hazy

come back. This is

should be.

in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain,

die, Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

that’s enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You never

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open. They feel like sandpaper scraping against my

Ava.

Her voice is warm honey

try to speak but my throat is

my palm.

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painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining,

awake. Relief colors her

and thick. “What happened?” The words scrape

into my arm. I want to protest

but I’m

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of a heart monitor. The chemical scent

skin. An IV

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

Her relief washes over

asking me questions, one talking over the other. It’s painful to my

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out?” I

disuse.

whines softly. We

worried.

asks, way too close to

are you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my other side.

weeks. The news hits me like a punch to the gut. I struggle

rest their hands on

an entire process that leaves me

I take stock. My limbs

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

blankets pooled around my waist. My

Selene cautions as I

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through a lot.

up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing. A yawning black hole in my

to me?”

hesitant and gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling

don’t know for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying

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

She’s way too big for

Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is

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my tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural.

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