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.

be no pain, Ava. Just wake up.

1. me.

No way.

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in this

come back. This is not where

should be.

But I’m here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain,

Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You never

***

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

Ava.

is warm honey

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

presses into my

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

colors her tone.

heavy and thick. “What happened?” The

Rest now. She nuzzles into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion drags me under again.

but

***

of a heart monitor. The chemical scent

An IV

open. The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles,

relief washes

questions, one talking over

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was I out?” I rasp, my throat raw from

disuse.

Selene whines softly. We were

worried.

asks, way too close to

are you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my

me like a punch to the

and Lucas rest their hands on my back to

an entire process that leaves

upright, I take stock. My

connected to an IV pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected

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

cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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through a lot.

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

to me?”

against my skin. Warmth flows between us,

your wolf is trying to emerge. Do you

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 her ears flick as she licks my face, settling into my

She’s way too big for

afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my unease.

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

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