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."

smelling like Downy-I dare to glance in his direction again, only to be caught by his unblinking gray eyes. "You could

"I don't want to."

wolves just do what they

to then a fit and damand haalaan an

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Lisa: Humans Have

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

like that

Ava and Lucas

I'm sure they are.

of his voice has all

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

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

need to be around each other as much as possible for the next

overriding

care, water, and sunlight to grow strong roots. The mate bond

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

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

lapse 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

something?" I venture

"Anything," he replies immediately.

happens now? I mean, with us?

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

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

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

He's quiet again.

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

sounds strangled when he responds, "Of

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

Humans

my words, trying to backpedal. How do I explain that it's not him specifically, but this whole situation that has

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

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

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

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

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

you need."

ask

"Of course."

well ask all the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does being mates mean?

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

gone."

stomach. It sounds

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