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

1. me.

No way.

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Ava:

peaceful here, in this

you have to come back. This is not

should be.

I feel pain, but it

die, Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

that’s enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry

***

my lids. Everything

Ava.

is warm honey in

I try to speak but my throat

presses into my palm. The

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hand. I turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining,

awake. Relief colors her tone.

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

now. She nuzzles into my arm. I want to protest

calling my name, but

***

returns gradually. The steady beep of a

skin. An IV

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

back. Her relief washes over me.

They’re asking me questions, one talking over the other. It’s painful to my

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was I out?” I rasp, my

disuse.

weeks, Selene whines softly.

worried.

way too close

feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from

The news hits me like a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit

and Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead me up

an entire process that

take stock. My limbs

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

in a hospital gown, blankets pooled around my waist.

Selene cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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through a lot.

Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing.

happened to me?”

his fingers hesitant and gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of

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

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

She’s way too big for

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

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

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