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."

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

"I don't want to."

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watch the ceiling in the darkness.

that

hope Ava and Lucas

I'm sure they are.

heated huskiness of his voice has

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

the subject from the tension simmering between us. "It's only

nods, his intense gaze softening slightly. "Absolutely. Ava and Lucas need to be

overriding my

beginning stages. 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 is similar."

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

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

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

ask you something?" I

"Anything," he replies immediately.

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

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

up

I know 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

if I decide I don't want this? The mate

He's quiet again.

you? Drag me into your cave and have your

sounds strangled when he responds,

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

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widen 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, but this whole situation that

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

mean you are going

Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere in the dim lighting.

everything-the chaos of the past few days, the whole mate

blanket to slip further down his chest. He 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

"Of course."

he's 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? Or

bond is more than just physical attraction, though that's certainly part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding a missing piece of yourself you didn't even

gone."

words send a flutter through my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure,

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