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

"I don't want to."

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

to ha anave, ahout it to then

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ceiling in the darkness. I hate to admit it,

like that he's

Ava and

I'm sure they are.

heated huskiness of his voice has all my lady bits

Lisa. Bad! He thinks you're his mate and

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

and Lucas need to be around

overriding my

his voice taking on a lecturer's tone. "Especially in the beginning stages. It's like... imagine a sapling that's just been planted. It needs constant care, water, and sunlight

She'll feel wrong and anxious

bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with

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

ask you something?" I

"Anything," he replies immediately.

happens now? I mean, with us? With

he isn't even breathing,

up

I don't expect you to just

if... if I decide I don't want this? The mate thing,

He's quiet again.

you? Drag me into your cave and have your wicked

strangled when he

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

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stumble over my words, trying to backpedal. How do I explain that it's not him specifically, but this whole situation that has

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

suspicion creeping back in. "So... does that mean you are going to do it

Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere in the

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

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 lot to take in," he

you need."

ask

"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?

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

gone."

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

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