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."

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 point out in

"I don't want to."

doesn't. These wolves just do what

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Lisa: Humans

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

that he's

hope Ava and Lucas are getting

I'm sure they are.

voice has

thinks you're his mate and he's being all caveman about it. Don't

clear my throat, desperate to change the subject from the tension simmering between us. "It's

to be around each other

momentarily overriding my

needs constant care, water, and sunlight to grow strong roots. The mate bond is similar."

will demand that time together. She'll feel wrong

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 day out of nowhere.

find myself studying Kellan's face

I ask you something?" I

"Anything," he replies immediately.

with us? With this whole...

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

up

I don't expect you to just fall

decide I don't

He's quiet again.

Drag me into your cave and

when he responds, "Of

relief, my body relaxing into the mattress. The tension that had been coiling in my muscles starts

Humans Have

my words 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,

you're an independent soul. The last thing

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

to you. Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense

whole mate situation being dropped on me like a bomb-I believe that

far too enticing for a woman like me. Especially when I'm trying so hard to not fall into his arms. "I know this is a lot to take in," he says softly.

you need."

I ask you something

"Of course."

humans want to know. "What exactly does being

than just physical attraction, though that's certainly part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding a missing piece of yourself you didn't

gone."

words send a flutter through my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure,

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