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

"I don't want to."

doesn't. These wolves just do what they want

to then

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Humans

the ceiling in the darkness. I hate to admit it, but

like that he's

Ava and Lucas

I'm sure they are.

voice has all my lady bits

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

from the tension simmering between us. "It's only right to give the newly mated couple their

to be around each other as

overriding my discomfort. "Why's

needs constant care, water, and sunlight to grow strong roots.

feel wrong and anxious without his sense, and

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

into silence, but it feels different now. Less awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's

ask you something?" I venture

"Anything," he replies immediately.

I mean, with us? With this whole... mate

he isn't even breathing, until he finally talks

up

a lot to take in, and I don't expect you to just fall into my arms and live happily ever after. We can take things as slow as

if I decide I don't want

He's quiet again.

you? Drag me into your cave and have your wicked

sounds strangled when he responds, "Of

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

Lisa. Humans

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

Lisa, I know you're an independent soul. The last thing I want to do is

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

gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere in the dim lighting. "I want you to come to me

whole mate situation being dropped on me like a bomb-I believe

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

you need."

ask you

"Of course."

well ask all the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does being mates mean? Like, practically speaking. Is it just... attraction?

though that's certainly part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding a missing piece of yourself you didn't even

gone."

through my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure, but also

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