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.

the

pain, Ava. Just wake up.

1. me.

No way.

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in this hazy place.

have to come back. This

should be.

I’m here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it doesn’t kill me. It isn’t enough

die, Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

that’s enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You

***

like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes indistinct.

Ava.

warm

to speak but my throat is parched, voice a ragged whisper. “Selene?”

presses into my palm.

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painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes bright with intelligence and

colors her tone.

my tongue heavy and thick. “What happened?” The words

my arm. I want

my name, but I’m already

***

a heart monitor. The chemical scent of disinfectant.

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

eyelids are heavy but I force them open. The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene

relief washes

questions, one talking over the other.

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long was I out?” I

disuse.

softly.

worried.

way

are you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my

to the gut. I struggle to sit

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

process that leaves

upright, I take stock.

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

in a hospital gown, blankets pooled around my waist. My hair is lank and greasy against my

cautions as I

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through a lot.

piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing. A yawning black hole in

to

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

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

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

She’s way too big

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

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tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you

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