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."

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

"I don't want to."

he doesn't. These wolves just do what

want to ha anave, ahout it to then a fit and

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Lisa: Humans

an inane sort of sound and watch the ceiling in the

that he's

hope Ava and Lucas

I'm sure they are.

of his voice has

his mate and he's

between us. "It's only right to give the newly mated couple their own space, don't

Lucas need to be around each other as much

momentarily overriding my discomfort.

imagine 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.

wrong and anxious without his sense, and his

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

studying Kellan's face in the dim light, noting the

ask you something?" I venture after a

"Anything," he replies immediately.

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

very, very still. It's like he isn't even breathing, until he finally talks again.

up

lot to take in, and I don't expect you to just

if... if I decide I don't want

He's quiet again.

to force me, are you? Drag me into your cave and have

sounds strangled when he responds, "Of course

relief, my body relaxing into the mattress. The tension that had been coiling in my muscles starts to

Humans Have

My eyes 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

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

narrow my eyes, suspicion creeping back in. "So... does that mean you are going to do it and

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

spine. 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 anything. ""Oh," I breathe out, not sure what else

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 for me too.

you need."

ask you

"Of course."

all the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does being mates mean? Like, practically speaking. Is it just... attraction? Or is there more to

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

gone."

stomach.

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