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."

glance in his direction again, only to be caught by

"I don't want to."

do what

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Humans

sort of sound and watch the ceiling in the

like that

and

I'm sure they are.

voice has all my

Lisa. Bad! He thinks you're his mate and he's being all caveman about it. Don't

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

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

piques, momentarily overriding my

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 let out a little hum. "So, they

time together. She'll feel wrong and

thing is kind of bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when you

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

you something?" I venture after a

"Anything," he replies immediately.

with us? With this

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

up

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

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

He's quiet again.

aren't going to force me, are you? Drag me into

he responds, "Of

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

Humans

I don't-" I stumble over my words, trying to backpedal. How do I

Lisa, I know you're an independent soul.

that mean you are going to do

His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and

days, the whole mate situation

a shirt on, which is far too enticing for a woman like me. Especially when I'm trying so hard to not fall into

you need."

ask

"Of course."

the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does being mates mean? Like, practically speaking. Is it just... attraction? Or is there more

though that's certainly part of it. It's a

gone."

stomach. It sounds

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