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."

to glance in his direction again, only to be caught by his unblinking gray eyes. "You

"I don't want to."

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Humans

the ceiling in the darkness. I

that he's

hope Ava and Lucas are getting

I'm sure they are.

huskiness of his voice has all my

He thinks you're his mate and he's

us. "It's only right to give the newly mated couple their own

Lucas need to be around each other as

piques, momentarily overriding

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 other's presence? Like, all the

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

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

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

ask you something?" I

"Anything," he replies immediately.

I mean, with us? With this whole... mate

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

up

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

don't want

He's quiet again.

to force me, are you? Drag me into your cave and

strangled when he responds,

a sigh of relief, my body relaxing into the mattress. The tension

Lisa. Humans Have

how my words must have sounded. "No! I mean, I don't-" I stumble over my words, trying to backpedal. How

"Look, Lisa, I know you're an independent soul. The last thing I want to

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

gray eyes

chaos of the past few days, the whole mate situation being dropped on me like a bomb-I believe that Kellan

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

you need."

ask you

"Of course."

as to explain things, I may as well ask all the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does being mates mean? Like, practically

of it. It's a

gone."

my stomach. It sounds romantic,

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