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."

like Downy-I dare to glance in his direction again, only to be

"I don't want to."

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Humans

and watch the ceiling in the darkness. I

that he's

and

I'm sure they are.

heated huskiness of his voice has all my lady bits

Lisa. Bad! He thinks you're his mate and he's being all

the tension simmering between us. "It's only right to give the newly mated couple their own space, don't you

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

overriding

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

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

More reasons this whole mate thing is kind of bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when

different now. Less awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in the

something?"

"Anything," he replies immediately.

with us? With this whole...

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

up

to just fall into my arms

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

He's quiet again.

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

sounds strangled when he responds, "Of

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

Lisa. Humans

"No! I mean, I don't-" I stumble over my words, trying to backpedal. How do I explain that it's

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

eyes, suspicion creeping back in. "So... does that mean you are going to do it and you're just

Kellan-half groan, half laugh. "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

of the past few days, the whole mate situation being dropped on me like a bomb-I believe that Kellan

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 says softly. "Hell, it's a

you need."

I ask

"Of course."

explain things, I may as well ask all the questions we humans want to

just physical attraction, though that's certainly part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like

gone."

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

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