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."

dare to glance in his direction again, only to

"I don't want to."

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

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Lisa: Humans Have

of sound and watch the ceiling in

like that

hope Ava and Lucas are

I'm sure they are.

voice has all

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

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

Ava and Lucas need to be around each other as much

momentarily overriding my discomfort.

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

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

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

contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in

something?" I venture

"Anything," he replies immediately.

happens now? I mean, with us?

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

up

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?

He's quiet again.

me, are you? Drag me into your cave

sounds strangled when he responds, "Of

of relief, my body relaxing into the mattress. The tension that had been coiling in my muscles starts to unwind, but it's

Lisa. Humans

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

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

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

to you. Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere in the dim lighting. "I want you to come to me of

voice sends a shiver down my spine. 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," I breathe

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

you need."

ask you something

"Of course."

all the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does being mates

it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding a missing piece

gone."

flutter through my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure, but also

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