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."

the comforter-soft and warm and smelling like Downy-I dare to glance in his direction again, only to be caught by his unblinking

"I don't want to."

course he doesn't. These wolves just do

it to then

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watch the ceiling in the darkness.

like that

Ava and

I'm sure they are.

huskiness of his voice has all my lady bits

mate and he's being

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

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

piques, momentarily overriding

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 his aggression will increase when

a lot less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with the label

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

ask you something?" I venture after a

"Anything," he replies immediately.

mean, with us? With

It's like he isn't even breathing, until he finally

up

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

if... if I decide I don't want this? The mate thing,

He's quiet again.

Drag me into

he

the mattress. The tension that had been coiling in my muscles starts to

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don't-" I stumble over my words,

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

my eyes, suspicion creeping back in. "So... does that mean you

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

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 that Kellan won't

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 too. But I meant what I said earlier-we can take this as

you need."

I ask you something

"Of course."

ask all the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does being mates mean? Like, practically speaking. Is it just... attraction? Or is there

than just physical attraction, though that's certainly part of it. It's a deep,

gone."

through my stomach. It

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