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.

the couch," I point out

"I don't want to."

doesn't. These wolves just do what they want and damn the

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

hope Ava and Lucas are

"I'm sure they are."

voice has all my

and he's being

simmering between us. "It's only right to give the newly mated couple their own space, don't you

slightly. "Absolutely. Ava and Lucas need to be around each other as much as possible

piques, momentarily overriding my discomfort. "Why's

tone. "Especially in the beginning stages. It's like... imagine a sapling that's just been planted. It needs constant care, water, and

need to be

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

whole mate thing is kind of bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when you

into silence, but it feels different now. Less awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in the dim light, noting the strong line of his jaw, the warmth

something?" I venture after a

"Anything," he replies immediately.

happens now? I mean, with us? With this whole...

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

if... if I decide I don't want this? The

He's quiet again.

me, are you? Drag me into your cave and have

he

into the mattress. The tension that had been coiling in

really think of me?" Kellan's voice is

over my words, trying to backpedal. How do I explain that it's not him specifically, but

independent soul. The

in. "So... does that mean you are going

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

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 that Kellan won't

not

enticing for a woman like me. Especially when I'm trying so hard to not fall into his arms. "I know this

said earlier—we can take this

I ask

"Of course."

as well ask all the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does being

though that's certainly part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding a missing piece of yourself you didn't even know was

sounds romantic, sure, but also

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