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 caught by his unblinking

"I don't want to."

These wolves just do what they

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Humans

of sound and watch the ceiling in

like that he's

hope Ava and

I'm sure they are.

his voice has all my lady bits

his mate and he's

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 for the next few

piques, momentarily overriding my discomfort.

lecturer's tone. "Especially in the 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, they literally need to be in each

time together. She'll feel wrong and anxious

lot less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with the label yourself one day

feels different now. Less awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in the

I ask you something?"

"Anything," he replies immediately.

I mean, with

It's like he isn't even breathing, until he finally

up

a lot to take in, and I don't expect you to just fall into my arms and live happily ever after. We can take things as slow as

if I decide I don't want this?

He's quiet again.

are you? Drag me into

he

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

Lisa. Humans

mean, I don't-" I stumble over my words, trying to backpedal. How do I explain that it's not him specifically, but this whole situation that

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

you are going to do it and

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

everything-the chaos of the past few days, the whole mate situation being

woman like me. Especially when I'm trying so hard to not fall into

you need."

ask

"Of course."

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 is there more

of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding a

gone."

send a flutter through my stomach. It sounds

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