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."

only to be caught by his unblinking gray

"I don't want to."

he doesn't. These wolves just do what they

ahout it to then a

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Lisa: Humans

of sound and watch the ceiling in

like that he's

and Lucas are getting

I'm sure they are.

of his voice has all my lady bits

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

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

to be around each other as much as

piques, momentarily overriding

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 let out a little hum. "So, they literally need to be in each other's presence? Like, all the

She'll feel wrong and anxious without his sense, and his aggression will increase

a lot less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with the label yourself one day out of

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

I ask you something?" I venture after

"Anything," he replies immediately.

I mean, with us? With

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

up

in, and I don't expect you to just

don't want this?

He's quiet again.

me, are you? Drag me into your cave and have your wicked way with

strangled when he responds,

the mattress. The tension that had been coiling in my muscles starts to unwind, but it's

Lisa. Humans

My eyes widen as I realize 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

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

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

gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere in the dim lighting. "I

the past few days, the whole mate situation being

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

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... attraction? Or is there

part of it. It's a deep, instinctual

gone."

flutter through my stomach.

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