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."

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 sleep on the couch," I point out in

"I don't want to."

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Lisa: Humans Have

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

that he's

hope Ava and Lucas are getting

I'm sure they are.

heated huskiness of his voice has all

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

throat, desperate to change the subject from the tension simmering between us. "It's

Lucas need to be around each other as much as possible for the

overriding

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 without his sense, and his aggression will increase when

is kind of bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with

Kellan's face in the dim light, noting the strong line of his jaw, the

I ask you something?"

"Anything," he replies immediately.

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

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

up

know this is a lot to take in, and I don't expect you to just fall into my

don't want this? The mate thing, I

He's quiet again.

me into your cave and have your

he responds, "Of course

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

Humans Have

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

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

mean you are going to do it

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

mate situation being dropped on me like a bomb-I believe that Kellan won't force

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 I meant what I said earlier-we can take

you need."

ask you something

"Of course."

he's being so kind as to explain things, I may as well ask all the questions we humans want to know.

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

gone."

stomach. It sounds romantic, sure, but also terrifying.

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