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."

smelling like Downy-I dare to glance in his direction again, only to be

"I don't want to."

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an inane sort of sound and watch the ceiling in the darkness. I hate

that he's

and

I'm sure they are.

heated huskiness of his voice has all my

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

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

softening slightly. "Absolutely. Ava and Lucas need to be around each other as much as possible for the next few

piques, momentarily overriding my

been planted. It needs constant care, water, and sunlight

feel wrong

romantic when you suddenly get slapped with the label yourself

different now. Less awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in the dim light, noting the strong line of his

I ask you something?" I

"Anything," he replies immediately.

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

goes very, very still. 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

decide I don't

He's quiet again.

Drag me into your cave and have your

when he responds, "Of course

of relief, my body relaxing into the mattress. The tension

Lisa. Humans Have

I don't-" I stumble over my words, trying to backpedal. How do I explain

an independent soul. The

narrow my eyes, suspicion creeping back in. "So... does that mean you are going to do it and you're

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

realize. 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,"

when I'm trying so hard to not fall into his arms. "I know this is a lot to

you need."

I ask you something

"Of course."

to know.

than just physical attraction, though that's certainly part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection.

gone."

through my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure, but

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