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."

only to be

"I don't want to."

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

to then a fit and damand

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Lisa: Humans Have

and watch the ceiling in the darkness. I

like that he's

Ava and Lucas

I'm sure they are.

voice has

and

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

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

overriding my discomfort. "Why's

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

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

less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with the

but it feels different now. Less awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's

you something?" I venture after

"Anything," he replies immediately.

I mean, with us?

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

up

you, Lisa. I know 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 can take things as slow as

if... if I decide I don't

He's quiet again.

me into your cave and have your wicked

sounds strangled when he

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

Lisa. Humans Have

eyes widen as I 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 that it's not him specifically, but this whole situation that

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

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

half laugh. "No, Lisa. I would never do that to you. Never." His gray eyes lock onto mine, intense and sincere in

I realize. Despite everything-the chaos of the past few days, the whole mate

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 I meant what I

you need."

ask you

"Of course."

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 you didn't

gone."

flutter through my stomach. It sounds

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