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."

again, only to be caught by

"I don't want to."

do what they want and damn the

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

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Lisa: Humans

sound and watch the ceiling in the

like that he's

hope Ava and Lucas are

I'm sure they are.

huskiness of his voice

and he's being all caveman

my throat, desperate to change the subject from the tension simmering between us. "It's only right to give the newly mated couple their own space, don't you

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

piques, momentarily overriding my discomfort.

care, water, and sunlight to grow strong roots.

that time together. She'll feel wrong and anxious without his sense, and his aggression will increase when she isn't

More reasons this 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

Less awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in the dim light,

ask you something?" I

"Anything," he replies immediately.

I mean, with

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

up

I don't expect you to just fall into my arms and live happily ever after. We can take

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

He's quiet again.

going to force me, are you? Drag me into

when he responds,

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

Lisa. Humans Have

how my words must have sounded. "No! I mean, I don't-" I stumble over my words, trying to backpedal. How do I explain that it's not him specifically, but this whole situation that

his broad shoulders slumping slightly. "Look, Lisa, I know you're an independent soul. The last thing I

does that mean you are going to do it and you're

His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense

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

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,

you need."

I ask you

"Of course."

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 deep, instinctual connection. Like finding a missing piece of yourself you didn't even know

gone."

send a flutter through my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure,

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