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

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

1. me.

No way.

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peaceful here, in

come back. This is not where

should be.

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

Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself.

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scraping against my lids. Everything

Ava.

voice is warm honey in

my throat is parched, voice

my palm. The slight

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She’s there, silver fur shining, blue

Relief colors her

tongue heavy and thick. “What

now. She nuzzles into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion drags

calling my name, but I’m

***

beep of a heart monitor.

my skin. An IV pinches the

The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene

relief

asking me questions, one talking over the other. It’s

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out?” I rasp, my throat

disuse.

weeks, Selene whines softly. We were so

worried.

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

feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my other

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

and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead me

entire process that

upright, I take stock. My limbs feel stiff,

of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet another

gown, blankets pooled around my waist. My hair is lank and

Selene cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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through a lot.

cast my mind back, trying to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho

happened to

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

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

beneath the moon. 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 a husky for a reason she has yet to explain, and her ears flick as she licks

not. She’s way too

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

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been natural. Is Vanessa right?

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