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.

be no pain, Ava. Just wake up.

1. me.

No way.

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here, in this hazy

have to come back. This is not

should be.

of darkness. I feel pain, but it

won’t die, Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself.

***

my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes

Ava.

is warm honey in my

to speak but my throat is parched, voice a

my palm. The slight weight of

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slowly, painfully. She’s

Relief colors her

my tongue heavy and thick.

nuzzles into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion

calling my name, but

***

beep of a heart monitor. The chemical scent of disinfectant.

skin. An IV pinches

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

back. Her relief washes over me.

one talking over the other. It’s painful

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I rasp, my throat raw from

disuse.

Selene whines softly.

worried.

way

feeling?” Lisa pipes

me like a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit

both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back to

entire process that

take stock.

few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet another IV

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

cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve been

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through a lot.

the century. 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 in my memory.

to

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

don’t know for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to emerge. Do you feel any

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 lap dog.

too big for

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

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Nothing about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to be a part of

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