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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
"I don't want to."
he doesn't. These wolves just do what they want and damn
ahout it to then a fit
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of sound and watch the ceiling in the darkness. I hate to admit it,
like that he's
Ava and
I'm sure they are.
heated huskiness of his voice
thinks you're his mate and he's being all caveman about it.
clear my 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, don't you
Ava and Lucas need to be
momentarily overriding my
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
wrong and anxious without his sense, and his aggression will
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
more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in the
something?"
"Anything," he replies immediately.
with us? With this
he isn't even breathing, until
up
Lisa. I know this is a lot to take in, and I don't expect you to just fall
I decide I don't want this? The mate thing, I
He's quiet again.
to force me, are you? Drag me into your cave and have your wicked way with
when he responds,
sigh of relief, my body relaxing into the mattress. The tension
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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 thing I
that mean you are going to do it and you're just
to you. Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere in the dim lighting. "I want you to come to me of your
spine. I believe him, I realize. Despite everything-the chaos of the past few days, the whole mate situation being dropped
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
you need."
I ask you something
"Of course."
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 more
more than just physical attraction, though that's certainly part of it. It's a deep,
gone."
stomach. It
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