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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in this

back.

should be.

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

die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry

***

against my lids. Everything is blurry,

Ava.

warm honey in

speak but my throat is parched, voice

presses into my palm. The

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slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver

colors her

dryly, my tongue heavy and thick.

nuzzles into my arm. I want to

name, but I’m already

***

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

IV pinches the back of my hand.

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

Her relief

and Lisa are here. They’re asking me questions, one

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out?” I rasp, my throat raw

disuse.

whines softly. We

worried.

okay?” Lucas asks, way too close

pipes up, from my other side.

like a punch to the

and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my

process that leaves

stock. My limbs

few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet another

blankets pooled around my waist. My hair

Selene cautions as I waver,

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through a lot.

piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing

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

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

not. She’s way too big for that.

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

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been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to be a part of me now?

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