Tangled

Chapter 310

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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."

Downy-I dare to glance in his direction again, only to be caught by

"I don't want to."

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Lisa: Humans

of sound and watch the ceiling in the darkness. I hate to admit

that

Ava and Lucas

I'm sure they are.

huskiness of his voice has all my lady

and he's being all caveman about it. Don't

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

Ava and Lucas need to

momentarily overriding my

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,

time together. She'll feel wrong and anxious without his sense, and

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

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

ask you something?" I

"Anything," he replies immediately.

with us? With this whole...

isn't even breathing, until

up

you, Lisa. I know this is a lot to take in, and I don't expect you to just

decide I don't

He's quiet again.

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

when he responds, "Of course

tension that had been coiling in

Humans Have

over my words, trying to backpedal. How do I explain that it's

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

eyes, suspicion creeping back in. "So... does that mean you are going to do it and

you. Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense

few days, the whole mate situation being dropped

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

you need."

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

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

gone."

a flutter through my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure,

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