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

1. me.

No way.

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Ava:

peaceful here, in this hazy

you have to come back. This is not where you

should be.

But I’m here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain,

die, Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

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

***

like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes indistinct.

Ava.

voice is warm honey

I try to speak but my throat is parched, voice a ragged

wet nose presses into my palm. The slight

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

awake. Relief colors

and thick. “What happened?” The words scrape out.

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

name, but I’m already gone.

***

The steady beep of a heart monitor. The

skin. An IV pinches the

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

back. Her relief washes

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

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I out?” I

disuse.

whines softly. We were

worried.

okay?” Lucas asks, way too close to

pipes up, from my

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

bracing her body against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead me up until I’m

entire process that

take stock. My limbs feel

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.

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

Selene cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve been

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through a lot.

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

to me?”

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

wolf is trying to emerge. Do

strangeness surrounding my heritage, the idea fills me with trepidation. I flick a glance toward my wolf, disguised as a husky for a

too big

afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my

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my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are

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