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."

glance in his direction again, only to be caught by his unblinking gray

"I don't want to."

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

want to ha anave, ahout it to then a

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Humans Have

sort of sound and watch the ceiling in the darkness. I hate to admit

that

and Lucas

I'm sure they are.

heated huskiness of his voice has all my lady bits

his mate and he's being all caveman about it. Don't

subject from the 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 few

overriding my discomfort.

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

first, Kellan confirms. "Their bond will demand that time together. She'll feel wrong and anxious without his sense, and his aggression

kind of bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with the label yourself one day

now. Less awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in

something?" I venture after a

"Anything," he replies immediately.

happens now? I mean, with us?

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

up

expect you to just fall into my arms and live happily ever after.

I don't want this? The mate thing,

He's quiet again.

are you? Drag me into your cave and have

when he responds, "Of course

mattress. The tension that had been coiling in my muscles starts to

Humans

realize how my words must have sounded. "No! I mean, I don't-" I stumble over my words, trying to backpedal. How do I explain

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

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

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

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

me. Especially when I'm trying so hard to not fall into his arms. "I know this is a lot to take in,"

you need."

I ask you something

"Of course."

the questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does being mates mean? Like, practically speaking.

more than just physical attraction, though that's certainly part of it. It's a

gone."

send a flutter through my stomach. It

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