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

"I don't want to."

do what they want and damn the

want to ha anave, ahout it to then a fit and damand haalaan an tha

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

like that he's

and

I'm sure they are.

of his voice has all my

his mate and

from the tension simmering between us. "It's only right to give the newly mated couple

nods, his intense gaze softening slightly. "Absolutely. Ava and Lucas need to be around each

overriding my discomfort. "Why'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 other's presence?

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

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

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

ask you something?" I venture after

"Anything," he replies immediately.

now? I mean, with

goes very, very still. It's like he isn't even

up

expect you to just fall into my arms and live happily ever

don't want this?

He's quiet again.

Drag me into your cave and have your

he

my body relaxing into the mattress. The tension that had been

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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 know you're an independent soul. The last thing I want to do is

"So... does that mean you are

you. Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine,

everything-the chaos of the past few days, the whole mate situation being

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

"Of course."

well ask all the questions we humans want to know.

it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding a missing piece of yourself

gone."

send a flutter through my stomach. It sounds romantic,

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