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."

dare to glance in his direction again, only to be caught by his unblinking gray eyes. "You could sleep on the couch," I point out

"I don't want to."

doesn't. These wolves just do what they want

it to then a fit and

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Humans Have

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

like that

hope Ava and

I'm sure they are.

huskiness of his voice has

and he's being all caveman about it. Don't give

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

slightly. "Absolutely. Ava and Lucas need to be around each other as much as possible for the next

curiosity piques, momentarily overriding my discomfort.

planted. It needs constant care, water,

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

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

contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in

I ask you something?" I

"Anything," he replies immediately.

with us? With

very still. It's like he isn't even breathing,

up

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. We can take things as slow

I don't want this? The

He's quiet again.

force me, are you? Drag me into

sounds strangled when he responds, "Of

body relaxing into the mattress. The tension that had been coiling in my muscles starts

Humans

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

an independent soul. The last thing I want to do

in. "So... does that mean you are going to do it and

eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere in the

whole mate situation being dropped on me like a bomb-I believe that Kellan won't force me into anything. ""Oh,"

for a woman like me. Especially when I'm trying so hard to not fall into his arms. "I know this is a lot

you need."

I ask

"Of course."

I may as well ask all the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly

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

gone."

send a flutter through my stomach. It sounds romantic,

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