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 be caught by his

"I don't want to."

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Lisa: Humans

in the darkness. I

that

and Lucas are

I'm sure they are.

heated huskiness of his voice has

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

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

to be around each other as much as possible for the next

momentarily overriding

requires proximity," he explains, his voice taking on a lecturer's tone. "Especially in the beginning stages. It's like... imagine a sapling that's just been planted. It needs constant care, water, and sunlight to grow

together. She'll feel wrong and

bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when you suddenly

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

something?" I venture after a

"Anything," he replies immediately.

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

like he isn't even breathing,

up

and I don't expect you to just fall into my arms and live happily ever after.

I don't want

He's quiet again.

Drag me into your cave and have your

when he responds, "Of

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

Humans

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

know you're an independent soul. The last thing

that mean you are going to do it and you're just lying

Lisa. I would never do that to you. Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense

mate situation being

far too enticing for a woman like me. Especially when I'm trying so hard to not fall into his arms. "I know this

you need."

I ask you something

"Of course."

so kind as to explain things, I may as well ask all the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does being mates mean? Like, practically speaking. Is

attraction, though that's certainly part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like

gone."

words send a flutter through my stomach.

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