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."

Fiddling with the 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

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

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Lisa: Humans

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

that

Ava and Lucas are

I'm sure they are.

huskiness of his voice has all my lady

Lisa. Bad! He thinks you're his mate and he's being all caveman about

us. "It's only right to give

"Absolutely. Ava and Lucas need to be around each other as

piques, momentarily overriding my

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 to grow strong roots. The

will demand that time together. She'll feel wrong

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

but it feels different now. Less awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in the

ask you something?" I

"Anything," he replies immediately.

mean, with us? With

isn't even breathing, until he finally talks

up

and I don't expect you to just fall into my arms and live

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

He's quiet again.

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

when he responds,

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

Humans Have

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

independent soul.

"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.

down my spine. I believe him, I realize. Despite everything-the chaos of the past few days, the whole mate situation being dropped on

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.

you need."

ask you

"Of course."

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...

bond is more than just physical attraction, though that's certainly part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding a missing piece

gone."

through my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure, but

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