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."

to be caught by his unblinking gray eyes. "You

"I don't want to."

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

that he's

Ava and Lucas are

I'm sure they are.

his voice has

thinks you're his mate and

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

"Absolutely. Ava and Lucas need to be around each other as much as

curiosity piques, momentarily overriding my discomfort.

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 each other's presence? Like, all the

that time together. She'll 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

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

you something?" I venture after a

"Anything," he replies immediately.

mean, with us? With

he isn't

up

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

don't want this? The

He's quiet again.

me

strangled when he responds,

mattress. The tension that had been coiling in my muscles starts to unwind, but it's

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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

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

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

"No, Lisa. I would never do that to you. Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere in the dim lighting. "I want you to come to me of your

his voice sends a shiver down my 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

a woman like me. Especially when I'm trying so hard to not fall into his arms. "I know this is a lot to

you need."

ask

"Of course."

want to know. "What exactly does being mates mean? Like, practically speaking. Is it just... attraction?

more than just physical attraction, though that's certainly part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding a missing piece of yourself you didn't

gone."

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

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