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.

be no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come

1. me.

No way.

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here, in this hazy place.

have to come back. This is not where

should be.

feel

won’t die, Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for

***

my lids.

Ava.

voice is warm honey

my throat is parched, voice

presses into my

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

awake. Relief colors her tone.

tongue heavy and thick. “What

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

but I’m already

***

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

sheets rough against my skin. An IV pinches the back

swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled up beside me, a

relief washes over

asking me questions, one talking over the

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out?” I rasp, my

disuse.

whines softly. We were so

worried.

way too close to me.

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

hits me like a punch to the gut. I struggle

helps, bracing her body against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead me

process that leaves

take stock. My limbs feel

off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet another IV line in the elbow of

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

Selene cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve been

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through a lot.

I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing.

happened to me?”

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

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

long, I yearned to shift, 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

not. She’s way too big for that.

sensing my unease. This

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about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right?

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