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."

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

"I don't want to."

he doesn't. These wolves just do

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inane sort of sound and watch the ceiling in the darkness. I hate to admit it,

that he's

hope Ava and Lucas are

I'm sure they are.

voice has all my

He thinks you're his mate and he's being

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

Lucas need to be around each other

piques, momentarily overriding my discomfort. "Why's

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,

first, Kellan confirms. "Their bond will demand that time together. She'll feel wrong and anxious without his sense, and

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

more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in the dim light,

ask you something?" I

"Anything," he replies immediately.

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

goes very, very still. It's like he isn't even

up

expect you to just fall into my arms and live happily ever after. We can take things as slow as

if... if I decide I don't

He's quiet again.

are you? Drag me

when he responds,

body relaxing into the mattress. The tension that had

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My eyes widen as 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

an independent soul. The

in. "So... does that mean you

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

whole mate situation being

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

you need."

I ask you

"Of course."

may as well ask all the questions we humans want to

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

gone."

stomach. It sounds romantic, sure, but also

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