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

"I don't want to."

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and watch the ceiling in

that

and

I'm sure they are.

his voice

He thinks you're his mate and

desperate to change the subject from the tension simmering between us. "It's only right to give the newly mated couple their own space,

Ava and Lucas need to be around each other as much as

momentarily overriding my

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 bond is similar." I let out a little hum. "So, they literally need to be in each

time together. She'll feel wrong and anxious without his sense, and his

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

lapse into silence, but it feels different now. Less awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's

ask you something?" I venture

"Anything," he replies immediately.

I mean, with

isn't even breathing, until he finally

up

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 take things as slow as you

decide I don't want this?

He's quiet again.

me, are you? Drag me into your cave

sounds strangled when he responds, "Of

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

Humans Have

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

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

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

sound escapes Kellan-half groan, half laugh. "No, Lisa. I would never do that to you. Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere in the dim lighting. "I

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

for a woman like me. Especially when I'm trying so hard to not fall into

you need."

I ask

"Of course."

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 is there

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

gone."

through my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure, but also

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