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."

and smelling like Downy-I dare to glance in his direction again, only to be caught by his unblinking gray eyes. "You could sleep

"I don't want to."

doesn't. These wolves just do what they

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watch the ceiling in the darkness. I hate

that he's

Ava and Lucas are

I'm sure they are.

heated huskiness of his voice

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

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

Lucas need to be around each

piques, momentarily overriding my discomfort. "Why's

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.

time together. She'll feel wrong and anxious without

lot less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with the label yourself one day out

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

something?" I venture after a

"Anything," he replies immediately.

mean, with us? With

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

up

to just fall into my arms and live happily ever after. We can take things

I decide I don't want this? The mate thing,

He's quiet again.

Drag me into your cave and have

sounds strangled when he

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

Humans Have

mean, I don't-" I stumble over my words, trying to backpedal. How do I explain that it's not him

independent soul.

"So... does that mean you are going to do it

groan, half laugh. "No, Lisa. I would never do that to you. Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere in the dim lighting. "I want you

mate situation being dropped on me

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 know this is a lot to take in," he says

you need."

I ask you

"Of course."

being 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 it just... attraction?

more than just physical attraction, though that's certainly part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding a missing piece of

gone."

flutter through my stomach.

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