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."

the 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

"I don't want to."

do

it to then a fit and damand

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Lisa: Humans Have

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

like that he's

Ava and Lucas are getting

I'm sure they are.

his voice has

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

desperate to change the subject from the tension simmering between us. "It's only right to give the newly mated couple their own

intense gaze softening slightly. "Absolutely. Ava and Lucas need to be around each other

overriding

"Especially in the beginning stages. It's like... imagine a sapling that's just been planted. It needs constant care, water, and

demand that time together. She'll feel wrong and anxious without his

reasons this whole mate thing is kind of bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with the label yourself

myself studying Kellan's face in the dim

you something?" I venture after a

"Anything," he replies immediately.

mean, with us? With

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

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

I don't want this? The

He's quiet again.

force me, are you? Drag me into

sounds strangled when he responds,

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

Lisa. Humans

my words, trying to backpedal. How do I explain that it's not him

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

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

escapes Kellan-half groan, half laugh. "No, Lisa. I would never do that to you. Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere in the dim lighting. "I

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

trying so hard to not fall into

you need."

ask you something

"Of course."

to 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

more than just physical attraction, though that's certainly part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding a missing piece of yourself

gone."

stomach. It sounds romantic, sure,

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