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."

with the 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

"I don't want to."

course he doesn't. These wolves just do

want to ha anave, ahout it to then

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

that he's

hope Ava and Lucas are getting

I'm sure they are.

voice has all my lady bits

thinks you're his mate and

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

and Lucas need to be around

piques, momentarily overriding my discomfort. "Why's

planted. It needs constant care, water, and sunlight to grow strong roots.

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

mate thing is kind of bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when you suddenly

I find myself studying Kellan's face in the dim light, noting the strong line of his jaw, the

you something?" I venture after

"Anything," he replies immediately.

with us? With this whole... mate

he isn't

up

this is 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

don't want this? The mate thing, I

He's quiet again.

going to force me, are you? Drag me into your

strangled when he responds,

a sigh of relief, my body relaxing into the mattress. The tension that had been coiling in my muscles starts to

Lisa. Humans Have

stumble over my words, trying to backpedal. How

you're an independent soul. The last thing I want

mean you

gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere in the dim lighting. "I

I 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 into anything. ""Oh,"

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.

you need."

ask you something

"Of course."

want to

more than just physical attraction, though that's certainly part of it. It's

gone."

my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure, but

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