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."

direction 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."

doesn't. These wolves just do what they want and

it to then a fit and damand

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ceiling in the darkness. I hate to admit it, but

that he's

hope Ava and Lucas are

I'm sure they are.

heated huskiness of his voice has

Bad! He thinks you're his mate and

desperate to change the subject from the tension simmering between us. "It's

Lucas need to be around each other as much

momentarily overriding

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 bond is similar." I

She'll feel wrong and anxious without

thing is kind of bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when

more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in the dim light,

something?" I

"Anything," he replies immediately.

mean, with us?

isn't

up

expect you to just fall into my arms and live happily

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

He's quiet again.

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

sounds strangled when he

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

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how my words must have sounded. "No! I mean, I don't-" I stumble over my words, trying to backpedal. How do I explain

know you're an independent soul. The last thing I

"So... does that mean you are going to

do that to you. Never." His gray eyes lock

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

his chest. 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

you need."

I ask you

"Of course."

as to 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

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

gone."

a flutter through my stomach.

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