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."

the comforter-soft and warm and smelling like Downy-I dare to glance in his direction again, only to be

"I don't want to."

wolves just do what they want and damn the

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

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

that

hope Ava and Lucas

I'm sure they are.

his voice has

thinks you're his mate and he's being all

from the tension simmering between us. "It's only right to

slightly. "Absolutely. Ava and Lucas need to be around each

overriding my discomfort. "Why's

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

bond will demand that time together. She'll feel wrong

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

lapse into silence, but it feels different now. Less awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in the dim light, noting the strong line of his

ask you something?" I venture

"Anything," he replies immediately.

happens now? I mean, with us? With this whole...

like he isn't even

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

if I decide I don't want this? The mate thing, I

He's quiet again.

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

he responds, "Of course

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

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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 has me

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

that mean you are going to do it and

half laugh. "No, Lisa. I would never do that to you. Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere

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

to slip 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

you need."

ask you something

"Of course."

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

that's certainly part of it. It's a deep,

gone."

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

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