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."

and warm and smelling like Downy-I dare to glance in his direction again, only to be caught by his unblinking gray eyes. "You could

"I don't want to."

doesn't. These wolves just do

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Lisa: Humans

in the darkness. I hate to admit it, but

that

Ava and Lucas are getting

I'm sure they are.

heated huskiness of his voice

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

us. "It's only right to give the newly mated couple their own space, don't you

need to

overriding my

he explains, 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 to grow strong roots. The mate bond is similar." I

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

reasons this whole mate thing is kind of bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when you suddenly get slapped

myself studying Kellan's face in the dim light, noting the strong line of

I ask you something?"

"Anything," he replies immediately.

happens now? I mean, with us? With

It's like he isn't even breathing, until

up

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

if... if I decide I don't

He's quiet again.

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

when he responds,

tension that had been coiling in my muscles starts to

Lisa. Humans Have

I realize how my words must have sounded. "No! I mean, I don't-" I stumble over my words, trying

broad shoulders slumping slightly. "Look, Lisa, I know you're an independent soul. The last thing I want to do is scare you or make you feel

that mean you are going to do it and you're just lying

His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere in the dim lighting. "I want you to come to me

few days, the whole mate situation being dropped on me like a

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 in," he says softly. "Hell, it's a lot for me too. But I meant

you need."

I ask

"Of course."

he's being so kind as to explain things, I may as well ask all the questions we humans want to know.

though that's certainly part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding a missing piece of yourself you didn't

gone."

my stomach. It sounds

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