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."

to glance in his direction again, only to be

"I don't want to."

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

want to ha anave, ahout it to then a fit and damand haalaan

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and watch the ceiling in the darkness. I hate to admit it,

that

Ava and Lucas

I'm sure they are.

his voice has all my lady

thinks you're his mate and he's being all caveman about it. Don't give

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

Lucas need to be around each other as much as possible for

piques, momentarily overriding my

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 similar." I let out a little hum. "So, they literally need to be in each other's presence?

bond will demand that time together. She'll feel wrong and anxious without his sense, and his aggression will increase when she

kind of bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with the label yourself one day out of

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 in his gray

you something?" I venture after a

"Anything," he replies immediately.

now? I mean, with us? With this

still. It's like he isn't even breathing, until

up

don't expect you to just fall into my arms and live happily

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

He's quiet again.

me into

when he responds, "Of course

of relief, my body relaxing into the mattress. The tension that had been coiling in my muscles starts to unwind, but it's

Lisa. Humans Have

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

you're an independent soul.

back in. "So... does that mean you are going to do

escapes Kellan-half groan, half laugh. "No, Lisa. I would never do that to you. Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense

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 force me into anything. ""Oh," I breathe out, not sure

too enticing for a woman like me. Especially when I'm trying so hard to

you need."

ask

"Of course."

so kind as to explain things, I may as well ask all the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does being

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

gone."

my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure, but also

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