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."

warm and smelling like Downy-I dare to glance in his direction again, only to be caught by his unblinking gray

"I don't want to."

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

like that he's

hope Ava and

I'm sure they are.

heated huskiness of his voice has all

mate and he's being all caveman about

throat, desperate to change the subject from the tension simmering between us. "It's only right to give the newly mated couple their own space,

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

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, they literally

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

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

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

something?" I venture after

"Anything," he replies immediately.

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

he isn't even breathing, until he finally

up

in, and I don't expect you to just fall into my arms and live happily ever after. We can

I decide I don't

He's quiet again.

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

he responds, "Of

out a sigh of relief, my body relaxing into the mattress. The tension that had

Humans Have

widen as I realize how my words must have sounded. "No! I mean, I don't-" I stumble over my words, trying to backpedal.

know you're an independent soul. The last thing I want to

that mean you are going to do it and you're just lying to me

strange sound escapes Kellan-half groan, half laugh. "No, Lisa. I would never do that to you. Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere in the dim lighting.

whole mate situation being dropped on me like a bomb-I believe that Kellan won't force me into

so hard to not fall into his arms. "I know this is a lot to take in," he says softly. "Hell,

you need."

I ask

"Of course."

humans want to know. "What exactly does being mates mean? Like, practically speaking. Is it just... attraction? Or is there more

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

gone."

through my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure, but also

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