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."

Fiddling with the 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. "You could sleep on the couch,"

"I don't want to."

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

that he's

and

I'm sure they are.

voice has all my

and he's being all caveman about it. Don't

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

Ava and Lucas need to be around each other

momentarily overriding

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

Kellan confirms. "Their bond will demand that time together. She'll feel wrong

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

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

you something?"

"Anything," he replies immediately.

I mean, with

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

up

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

I decide I don't want this?

He's quiet again.

me, are you? Drag me into your cave and have your wicked

he responds, "Of course

the mattress. The tension that had been coiling in my

Humans Have

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 specifically, but this

shoulders slumping slightly. "Look, Lisa, I know you're an independent soul. The last

mean you are

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

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 what else to

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

you need."

ask

"Of course."

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 more

It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding a missing piece

gone."

flutter through my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure,

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