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."

his direction again, only to be caught by his unblinking gray eyes. "You could sleep on the

"I don't want to."

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Humans

and watch the ceiling in the darkness.

like that

hope Ava and Lucas are

I'm sure they are.

heated huskiness of his voice

his mate and he's

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

need to be around each other as

piques, momentarily overriding my

It needs constant care, water, and sunlight to grow strong roots. The mate bond is similar."

demand that time together. She'll feel wrong and anxious

reasons this whole mate thing is kind of bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with

I find myself studying Kellan's face in the dim light, noting the strong

I ask you something?" I

"Anything," he replies immediately.

with

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

up

don't expect you to just fall into my arms and live happily ever after.

don't want

He's quiet again.

aren't going to force me, are you? Drag me into your cave and have

when he responds,

tension that had been coiling in

Humans Have

over my words, trying to backpedal. How do I explain

shoulders slumping slightly. "Look, Lisa, I know you're an independent soul. The

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

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 you to come to me of your own

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

one elbow. The movement causes the blanket to slip further down his chest. He doesn't have a shirt 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

you need."

I ask you

"Of course."

may as well ask all the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does being

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

gone."

through my stomach.

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