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."

glance in his direction again, only to be caught by his

"I don't want to."

he doesn't. These wolves just do

I want to ha anave, ahout it to then a

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Humans

and watch the ceiling in the darkness. I hate to admit it,

that he's

hope Ava and Lucas are

I'm sure they are.

voice has all

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

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

and Lucas need to be around each

piques, momentarily overriding my

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 strong roots. The mate

wrong and anxious without his

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

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

you something?" I

"Anything," he replies immediately.

with us? With this whole...

like he isn't even breathing, until he finally

up

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

I don't want this? The mate thing,

He's quiet again.

force me, are you? Drag me into

strangled when he responds,

my body relaxing into the mattress. The tension

Lisa. Humans

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

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

does that mean you are

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

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

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 softly. "Hell, it's a lot

you need."

I ask you

"Of course."

ask all the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does being mates mean? Like, practically speaking. Is

part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding a missing piece of yourself you

gone."

through my stomach. It sounds romantic,

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