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."

warm and smelling like Downy-I dare to glance in his direction again, only to be caught by his unblinking gray eyes. "You could sleep on the couch," I point out in a

"I don't want to."

doesn't. These wolves just do

want to ha anave, ahout it to

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Humans

and watch the ceiling in the

like that

Ava and Lucas are

I'm sure they are.

heated huskiness of his voice has all

you're his mate and he's

clear my throat, desperate to change the subject from the tension simmering between us. "It's only right to give the

softening slightly. "Absolutely. Ava and Lucas need to

momentarily overriding my

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,

that time together. She'll feel wrong and anxious without his sense, and his aggression will increase when she

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

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

you something?" I

"Anything," he replies immediately.

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

It's like he isn't even

up

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

decide I don't want this?

He's quiet again.

you? Drag me into your cave and have your wicked way with

when he responds,

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

Humans Have

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 it's not him

"Look, Lisa, I know you're an independent soul. The last thing I want to do is scare you

creeping back in. "So... does that mean you are going to do it and you're just lying to me

escapes Kellan-half groan, half laugh. "No, Lisa. I would never do that to you. Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine,

his voice sends a shiver down my 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 to

when I'm trying so hard to

you need."

I ask

"Of course."

the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does being mates mean?

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

gone."

flutter through my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure,

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