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

no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come back to

1. me.

No way.

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peaceful here, in this hazy place.

have to come back.

should be.

serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it doesn’t kill me. It isn’t enough to kill me.

die, Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You never died. Wake. Up!

***

like sandpaper scraping against my

Ava.

Her voice is warm

try to speak but my throat is

nose presses into my palm. The slight weight of

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slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue

Relief colors her

tongue heavy and thick.

I want to protest

calling my name, but I’m already gone.

***

of a heart monitor. The

sheets rough against my skin. An IV

tiles, fluorescent lights. A

back. Her relief washes

asking me questions, one

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

disuse.

whines softly.

worried.

okay?” Lucas asks, way too

Lisa pipes up, from my other

a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my muscles weak

Selene helps, bracing her body against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their

entire process that leaves me

upright, I take stock. My

an IV pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and

waist.

I waver,

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through a lot.

I cast my mind back, trying to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing. A yawning black hole

to

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

sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying

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

not. She’s way too big for that.

soothes, sensing my unease. This is

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my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you

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