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 eyes. "You could sleep

"I don't want to."

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watch the ceiling in the darkness. I hate to admit

that he's

and Lucas are

I'm sure they are.

of his voice has all my

He thinks you're his mate and

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

Lucas need to be around each other as

piques, momentarily overriding my discomfort. "Why's

needs constant care, water, and sunlight to grow strong roots. The mate bond is similar." I let out a little hum. "So,

together. She'll feel wrong and anxious without his sense, and his

a lot less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with the

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

something?" I venture after

"Anything," he replies immediately.

I mean, with us? With this

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

up

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

decide I don't

He's quiet again.

Drag me

he responds,

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

Lisa. Humans Have

over my words, trying to backpedal. How do I explain that it's not him specifically, but this whole

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

does that mean you

gray eyes lock onto

days, the whole mate situation being dropped on me like a bomb-I believe that Kellan won't force me into anything.

far too enticing for a woman like me. Especially when I'm trying so hard to not fall into his arms.

you need."

I ask you something

"Of course."

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

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

gone."

flutter through my stomach. It sounds

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