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."

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Lisa: Humans Have

ceiling in the darkness. I hate to admit it, but I

that he's

Ava and Lucas are

I'm sure they are.

of his voice

and he's being all caveman about it.

to change the subject from the tension simmering between us. "It's only

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

momentarily overriding my discomfort.

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

wrong and anxious without his sense,

lot less romantic when you suddenly

contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in the dim light, noting the strong line

I ask you something?"

"Anything," he replies immediately.

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

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

up

just fall into my arms and

if I decide I don't want this? The mate

He's quiet again.

are you? Drag me into your cave and have your wicked way

strangled when he responds,

the mattress. The tension that had been coiling in my muscles starts to unwind,

Humans Have

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

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

groan, half laugh. "No, Lisa. I would never do that to you. Never." His gray eyes

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

the blanket to slip further down his chest. 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

you need."

I ask you

"Of course."

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

gone."

my stomach. It

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