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."

direction again, only to be caught by his unblinking gray eyes. "You could sleep on the

"I don't want to."

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and watch the ceiling in the

like that

hope Ava and

I'm sure they are.

of his voice has all my lady bits

and he's being

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

gaze softening slightly. "Absolutely. Ava and Lucas need to be around each other as much as possible for the next

momentarily overriding my discomfort. "Why's

a sapling that's just been planted. It 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

will demand that time together. She'll feel wrong and anxious without

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

feels different now. Less awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in the dim

I ask you something?"

"Anything," he replies immediately.

with us?

he isn't

up

don't expect you to just fall into my arms and live happily ever after. We can take things as slow as you

decide I don't want this?

He's quiet again.

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

when he responds,

The tension

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as I realize how my words must have sounded. "No! I mean, I don't-" I stumble over my words, trying to backpedal. How do I explain that it's not him specifically,

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

you are going to do

eyes lock onto mine, intense

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

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

you need."

ask you

"Of course."

humans want to know. "What exactly does being mates

part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding

gone."

stomach. It sounds romantic, sure, but

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