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.

will be no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come

1. me.

No way.

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in this hazy

have to come back. This is not where you

should be.

feel pain, but it doesn’t kill

die, Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

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

***

open. They feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids.

Ava.

voice is warm honey in my mind,

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

into my palm. The slight weight

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on my hand. I turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s

Relief colors her

swallow dryly, my tongue heavy and thick. “What happened?” The words scrape

arm. I want to protest but

name, but I’m

***

a heart monitor. The chemical scent

skin. An IV pinches

I force them open. The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled up

back. Her relief washes over

They’re asking me questions, one talking

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I out?” I

disuse.

Selene whines softly. We were

worried.

you okay?” Lucas asks, way too close to me.

Lisa pipes up, from

weeks. The news hits me like a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my muscles weak and

Lisa and Lucas rest

entire process that leaves

take stock. My limbs feel stiff,

IV pole with a few 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

gown, blankets pooled around my waist. My hair is

as I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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through a lot.

Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the

to

reaches for my face, his fingers hesitant and gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of comfort, and the

sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to emerge. Do

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 lap as though she’s a

not. She’s way too big

afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This

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

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