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

"I don't want to."

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

to ha anave, ahout it to then a fit and damand

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Humans

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

like that

hope Ava and Lucas

I'm sure they are.

voice has all my

his mate and

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

to be around each other as much as possible for the

momentarily overriding my discomfort. "Why's

beginning stages. It's like... 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,

wrong and anxious without his sense,

More 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

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

ask you something?" I venture after a

"Anything," he replies immediately.

I mean, with us? With this

isn't even breathing, until he finally

up

just fall into my

if... if I decide I don't want this? The mate thing,

He's quiet again.

me into your cave and have

strangled when he responds, "Of

tension that had been coiling in my muscles starts to unwind, but it's

Lisa. Humans Have

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

broad shoulders slumping slightly. "Look, Lisa, I know you're an independent soul. The last thing I

eyes, suspicion creeping back in. "So... does that mean you are

eyes lock

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

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. "Hell, it's a lot for me too. But I meant what I said earlier-we can take this as

you need."

I ask

"Of course."

he's 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

it. It's

gone."

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

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