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."

only to be caught by his unblinking gray eyes. "You

"I don't want to."

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

it to then a fit and damand haalaan

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Humans

sound and watch the ceiling in the darkness. I hate

that he's

and Lucas are

I'm sure they are.

his voice

thinks you're his mate and he's being all caveman about it.

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

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

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

first, Kellan confirms. "Their bond will demand that time together. She'll feel wrong and anxious without his sense, and his aggression will increase when

less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with the label yourself one day out of nowhere.

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

you something?" I venture after

"Anything," he replies immediately.

now? I mean, with us?

very, very still. It's like he isn't even breathing, until he finally talks again.

up

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

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

He's quiet again.

me into

strangled when he responds, "Of course

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

Lisa. Humans Have

over my words, trying to backpedal. How

soul. The last thing I want to do is scare you or make you feel

creeping back in. "So... does that mean you are going

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 want you to come to me

conviction in his 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

The movement causes the blanket to slip further down 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

you need."

ask you something

"Of course."

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 just... attraction?

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

gone."

send a flutter through my stomach.

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