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

1. me.

No way.

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here, in this hazy place.

to come back.

should be.

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

Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

that’s enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You

***

my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes indistinct.

Ava.

Her voice is warm honey in my mind,

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

my palm. The

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

colors her

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

into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion drags me under again.

name, but I’m already gone.

***

The steady beep of a heart monitor.

An IV pinches the

tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled up

Her relief washes over me.

questions, one talking over the other.

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out?” I rasp,

disuse.

whines softly. We

worried.

okay?” Lucas asks, way too close

pipes up, from my

a punch to the gut. I struggle

and Lucas rest

an entire process that leaves me

upright, I take stock.

my hand, connected to an 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 my other arm.

gown, blankets pooled around my waist. My hair

as I

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through a lot.

I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the

to me?”

between us, a feeling of comfort, and the urge to press

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

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,

not. She’s way too big for that.

Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is

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my tongue. Nothing about my life has been

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