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."

direction again, only to be

"I don't want to."

do what they want and damn

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

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Lisa: Humans

in the darkness. I

like that

Ava and Lucas are getting

I'm sure they are.

heated huskiness of his voice has all my lady bits

mate 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 their own space, don't you

"Absolutely. Ava and Lucas need to be

overriding my

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

feel wrong and

of bullshit. It's a lot less romantic

Kellan's face in the

I ask you something?" I venture after a

"Anything," he replies immediately.

mean, with us?

he isn't

up

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

I decide I don't want this? The

He's quiet again.

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

strangled when he

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

Lisa. Humans Have

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 whole situation

slumping slightly. "Look, Lisa, I know you're an independent soul. The last thing I want to do is scare

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

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

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.

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."

I ask you something

"Of course."

to know. "What exactly

bond is more than just physical attraction, though that's certainly part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding

gone."

flutter through my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure,

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