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."

again, only to be caught by his

"I don't want to."

doesn't. These wolves just do

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sort of sound and watch the ceiling in the darkness. I

like that

and Lucas

I'm sure they are.

his voice

mate and

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

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

momentarily overriding my

stages. It's like... imagine a sapling that's just been planted. It needs constant care, water, and sunlight to grow strong roots. The mate bond

will demand that time together. She'll feel wrong and anxious without his sense,

romantic

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 jaw, the warmth in his gray

you something?" I venture after a

"Anything," he replies immediately.

mean, with us? With this

isn't even breathing,

up

this is 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

decide I don't

He's quiet again.

Drag me into

when he

tension that had been coiling in my muscles starts

Humans

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 whole situation that has me

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

creeping back in. "So... does that mean you are going to

Never." His gray eyes

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

woman like me. Especially when I'm trying so hard

you need."

ask

"Of course."

the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does

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

gone."

through my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure,

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