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.

on the couch," I point out in a vague

"I don't want to."

just do what they

he sleep on the couch—I just make an inane sort of sound

and Lucas are

"I'm sure they are."

heated huskiness of his voice has all my lady

and he's being all caveman

the subject from the tension simmering between us. "It's only right to give the newly mated

"Absolutely. Ava and Lucas need to be around each other

piques, momentarily overriding my discomfort. "Why's

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 is

a little hum. "So, they literally need to be in

Kellan confirms. "Their bond will demand that time together. She'll feel wrong and anxious without his sense, and his aggression will increase when she isn't

a lot less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with the label yourself one day out

awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's

something?" I venture

"Anything," he replies immediately.

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

"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

decide I don't want this? The

He's quiet again.

going to force me, are you? Drag me into your cave and have your wicked way with

he responds, "Of course

sigh of relief, my body relaxing into the mattress. The tension that had been coiling in my

of me?" Kellan's

I realize how my words 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,

know you're an independent soul. The last thing I want to do is scare you or make

in. "So... does that mean you are going to do it and you're just lying to me

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

shiver down my spine. I believe him, I realize. Despite everything—the chaos of the past few days, the

out, not sure what else

shifts, propping himself up 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

I said earlier—we can take this as slow as you

ask you

"Of course."

all the questions we humans want to know.

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

my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure, but also terrifying. "But what does that mean for

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