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."

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.

"I don't want to."

doesn't. These wolves just do what they want

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

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sort of sound and watch the ceiling in the darkness.

like that he's

and

I'm sure they are.

voice has all my lady bits

mate and he's being

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

need to be around each other as much as possible

curiosity piques, momentarily overriding my discomfort. "Why's

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 similar." I let out a little hum. "So, they literally need to be

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

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

but it feels different now. Less awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in the dim light, noting

I ask you something?" I

"Anything," he replies immediately.

mean, with

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

up

this is a lot to take in, and I don't expect you to just fall into my arms and live happily ever after. We can take things

decide I don't want this?

He's quiet again.

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

strangled when he

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

Humans

don't-" I stumble over my words, trying to

soul. The last thing I want to do is scare

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

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

him, I realize. Despite everything-the chaos of the past few days, the whole mate situation being dropped on

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 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

you need."

ask

"Of course."

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 mean? Like, practically speaking. Is it just... attraction? Or is there

certainly part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding a missing piece of

gone."

flutter through my stomach.

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