Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 310

Chapter 310 Lisa: Humans Have Pheromones?

LISA

Kellan's stare leaves me unsettled. It's been intense ever since our reunion.

I'm grateful for the space he's given me—this whole fated mate business is like being slammed into by a rogue freight train—but there's a whole lot of little things that keep throwing his feelings into the foreground, making it impossible to ignore.

Like how he touches me a little too often.

How he watches my every move.

He hasn't kissed me again, but it doesn't make the current situation any less awkward.

"Can't sleep?" he asks, as if us sharing a bed and him lying on his side to stare at me for the past hour is somehow conducive to falling asleep.

"Nope." The word pops out with a little more sass than I intend, but damn it, does he have to stare at me like that?

"Oh."

And awkward silence again.

"So, why couldn't I just bunk with Dr. Blackwell?" My question breaks the uneasy tension between us.

"They don't have an extra bed," he explains easily.

"And no empty beds anywhere else? At all? Just—none?"

"None."

"No sleeping bags?"

"No."

"Extra blanket?"

"Not even one of those."

He's lying through his damn perfect teeth.

"You have a couch," I point out. I saw it. I know it's there.

"People come in and out at all times of day. It isn't the safest place to sleep. Better to be in bed."

"Right." Fiddling with the comforter—soft and warm and smelling like Downy—I dare to glance in his direction again, only to be caught by his unblinking gray eyes.

I

"I don't want to."

just do what they want and damn the

be angry about it—to throw a fit and demand he sleep on the couch—I just make an inane sort of

hope Ava and Lucas are getting

"I'm sure they are."

heated huskiness of his voice has all my lady bits

his mate and he's being all caveman about it.

to change the subject from the tension simmering between us. "It's only

gaze softening slightly. "Absolutely. Ava and Lucas need to be around

piques, momentarily overriding

mate bond requires proximity," he explains, his voice taking on a lecturer's tone. "Especially in the beginning stages. It's like... imagine a sapling that's just been planted. It needs constant care, water, and sunlight to grow strong roots. The mate bond

"So, they literally need

She'll feel wrong and anxious without his sense, and his aggression will increase

thing is kind of bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with

awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in the dim

I ask you something?" I venture after a

"Anything," he replies immediately.

now? I mean, with us? With

goes very, very still. It's like he isn't even breathing, until he finally talks again. "That's up to you, Lisa. I know this is a lot to take in, and I don't expect you to just fall into my arms and live

I don't want this? The mate

He's quiet again.

going to force me, are you? Drag me into your

he responds,

the mattress. The tension that had

what you really think of

must have sounded. "No! I mean, I don't—" I stumble over my words, trying to backpedal. How do I explain that it's not him specifically, but this whole situation that

sighs, his broad shoulders slumping slightly. "Look, Lisa, I know you're an independent soul. The last thing I want to do is scare you or make you

mean you are going to do it and you're just lying to

that to you. Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere in the dim lighting. "I want you

conviction in his voice sends a shiver down my spine. I believe him, I realize. Despite everything—the chaos of the past few days, the whole mate situation being dropped on me like a bomb—I believe

out, not sure

on one elbow. The movement causes the blanket to slip further down his chest. He doesn't have a shirt on, which is far too enticing for a woman like me. Especially when I'm trying so hard to not fall into his arms. "I know this is a lot to take in," he says softly. "Hell, it's a lot for me

earlier—we can take this

ask

"Of course."

he's being so kind as to explain things, I may as well ask all the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does being mates mean? Like, practically speaking. Is it just... attraction? Or

mate bond is more than just physical attraction, though that's certainly part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding a

flutter through my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure, but also

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