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."

in his direction again, only to be caught by his unblinking gray eyes. "You could sleep on the couch," I

"I don't want to."

he doesn't. These wolves just do

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Lisa: Humans

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

that

and

I'm sure they are.

his voice has all

He thinks you're his mate and he's being all caveman about it.

desperate to change the subject from the tension simmering between us.

softening slightly. "Absolutely. Ava and Lucas need to be around each other as much as

overriding my

he 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, water, and sunlight

that time together. She'll feel wrong and

More reasons this whole mate thing is kind of bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with the label yourself one day out

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

you something?" I venture after a

"Anything," he replies immediately.

with us? With this whole...

still. It's like he isn't even

up

a lot to take in, and I don't expect you to just fall into my arms and

don't want this? The mate

He's quiet again.

me, are you? Drag me into your cave and

strangled when he responds,

The tension that had been coiling in my muscles starts to unwind, but

Lisa. Humans

I stumble over my words, trying to backpedal. How

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

mean you are

"No, Lisa. I would never do that to you. Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and

few days, the whole mate situation being dropped on me like a bomb-I believe

one 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 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 slow

you need."

I ask

"Of course."

we humans want to know. "What exactly does being mates mean? Like, practically speaking.

that's certainly part of it. It's a deep,

gone."

my stomach. It

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