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 caught

"I don't want to."

he doesn't. These wolves just do what they want and damn

ahout it to

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Lisa: Humans

the ceiling in the darkness. I hate to

like that he's

and Lucas

I'm sure they are.

of his voice has all my

you're his mate and he's being all caveman about it.

between us. "It's only right to give the newly mated couple their

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

momentarily overriding my

in the beginning 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

together. She'll feel wrong and anxious without his sense, and his aggression will increase when

reasons this whole mate thing is kind of bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with the label yourself one day out

I find myself studying Kellan's face in the

something?" I venture

"Anything," he replies immediately.

now? I mean, with us? With this whole... mate

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

up

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

decide I don't want this?

He's quiet again.

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

sounds strangled when he

a sigh of relief, my body relaxing into the mattress. The tension that had been coiling in

Humans 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

independent soul. The last thing I want to do

in. "So... does that mean you are going to do it and you're just lying to me

would never do that to you. Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere in the dim lighting. "I want you to

few days, the whole mate situation being dropped on me like a bomb-I believe that Kellan won't force me into anything. ""Oh," I breathe out, not sure what else

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 take in," he says softly. "Hell, it's a lot for

you need."

I ask

"Of course."

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

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

gone."

through my stomach. It sounds romantic, sure, but

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