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."

smelling like Downy-I dare to glance in his direction again, only to

"I don't want to."

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watch the ceiling in the darkness. I

that he's

Ava and Lucas are

I'm sure they are.

his voice has

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

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

need to be around each other as

curiosity piques, momentarily overriding

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

wrong and anxious without his sense,

thing is kind of bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with

now. Less awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in the dim light, noting the strong line of his jaw, the

something?" I venture after

"Anything," he replies immediately.

with us? With

he isn't even breathing, until

up

lot to take in, and I don't expect you to just fall into my arms

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

He's quiet again.

Drag me into

strangled when he responds, "Of

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

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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

Lisa, I know you're an independent soul. The last thing I

you are going to do it and you're

Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere in the dim lighting. "I want you to come to me

spine. I believe him, I realize. Despite everything-the chaos of the past few days, the whole mate situation being dropped on me like a bomb-I believe that Kellan won't force me into anything. ""Oh," I

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 what I said earlier-we can take this as slow

you need."

I ask

"Of course."

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...

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

gone."

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

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