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."

like Downy-I dare to glance in his direction again, only to be caught by his unblinking gray eyes. "You could

"I don't want to."

course he doesn't. These wolves just do what they want and

an I want to ha anave, ahout it to then a fit

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Lisa: Humans

ceiling in the darkness. I hate

that

hope Ava and Lucas

I'm sure they are.

of his voice has all my lady bits

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

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

nods, his intense gaze softening slightly. "Absolutely. Ava and Lucas need to be around each other as much as possible

momentarily overriding my

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 little hum. "So, they literally need to be in each other's

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

romantic when you suddenly get

lapse into silence, but it feels different now. Less awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in the

you something?" I

"Anything," he replies immediately.

happens now? I mean, with us? With

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

up

you, Lisa. I know this is a lot to take in, and I don't expect you to just fall into my arms and live happily

don't want this? The mate thing, I

He's quiet again.

are you? Drag me

he

out a sigh of relief, my body relaxing into the mattress. The tension that had been coiling in my muscles starts to

Lisa. Humans

sounded. "No! I mean, I don't-" I stumble over my words, trying to

his broad shoulders slumping slightly. "Look, Lisa, I know you're an independent soul. The last thing I want to do is scare you or make you

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

gray eyes lock

I realize. Despite everything-the chaos of the past few days, the whole mate situation being dropped on me like a bomb-I believe

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

you need."

ask you

"Of course."

being so kind as to explain things, I may as well ask all the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does being mates

of it. It's a deep,

gone."

a flutter through my stomach. It sounds

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