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."

comforter-soft and warm and smelling like Downy-I dare to glance in his direction again, only to be

"I don't want to."

course he doesn't. These wolves just do what they want and damn the

it to then a fit and damand haalaan an tha

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Humans

sort of sound and watch the ceiling in the darkness. I hate to admit it, but

that he's

and Lucas are getting

I'm sure they are.

of his voice has all

mate and he's being all caveman about

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

need to be around each other as much as

momentarily overriding my

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

bond will demand that time together. She'll feel wrong and anxious without his sense,

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

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

you something?"

"Anything," he replies immediately.

happens now? I mean, with us? With this

It's like he isn't

up

I know this is a lot to take in, and I don't expect you to just fall into my

if I decide I don't want

He's quiet again.

me into

when he responds, "Of course

tension that had been coiling in my muscles

Humans

as I realize how my words must have sounded. "No! I mean, I don't-" I stumble over my words,

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

you are going to

strange 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

chaos of the past few days, the whole mate situation being dropped

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 know this is a lot to take in," he says softly. "Hell, it's a lot for me too. But I meant what I said earlier-we can take this

you need."

ask you something

"Of course."

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

It's a deep,

gone."

through my stomach.

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