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."

Fiddling with the comforter-soft and warm and smelling like Downy-I dare to glance in his direction again, only to

"I don't want to."

course he doesn't. These wolves just do what they

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

like that

Ava and Lucas are

I'm sure they are.

huskiness of his voice has all my lady bits

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

tension simmering between us. "It's only right to give the newly mated

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

curiosity piques, momentarily overriding

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

together. She'll feel wrong and anxious without his sense, and his aggression will increase when

of bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when

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

something?" I

"Anything," he replies immediately.

I mean, with us? With

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

up

lot to take in, and I don't expect you to just

decide I don't

He's quiet again.

are you? Drag me into your

sounds strangled when he responds, "Of

relaxing into the mattress. The tension that had been coiling in my muscles starts to

Humans

"No! I 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 has me

Lisa, I know you're an independent soul. The

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

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

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 Kellan won't force me

He doesn't have a shirt on, which is 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. "Hell, it's a lot for me too. But

you need."

ask you

"Of course."

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

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

gone."

through my stomach. It sounds romantic,

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