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."

with the comforter-soft and warm and smelling like Downy-I dare to glance in his direction again, only to be caught by his unblinking gray eyes. "You could sleep on

"I don't want to."

wolves just do what they want and damn

I want to ha anave, ahout it to then a fit and damand haalaan an tha

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sound and watch the ceiling in the darkness.

like that he's

and Lucas are

I'm sure they are.

huskiness of his voice has all my lady bits

Bad! He thinks you're his mate and he's

my throat, desperate to change the subject from the tension simmering between us. "It's only right to give

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

overriding

bond requires proximity," he explains, his voice taking on a lecturer's tone. "Especially 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

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

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

into silence, but it feels different now. Less awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in the dim

you something?" I venture

"Anything," he replies immediately.

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

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

up

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

I decide I don't want

He's quiet again.

Drag me into your cave and

when he responds, "Of

relaxing into the mattress. The tension that had been coiling in my

Lisa. Humans

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

an independent soul. The last thing I want

mean you are going to do it and you're just lying to me

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

sends 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 believe

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 me too. But

you need."

ask you

"Of course."

being so kind as to explain things, I may as well ask all the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does being mates mean? Like, practically speaking. Is it

part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like

gone."

stomach. It sounds romantic, sure,

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