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 sleep on the couch," I point out in

"I don't want to."

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

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

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Lisa: Humans Have

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

that

Ava and Lucas are

I'm sure they are.

his voice has

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

desperate to change the subject from the tension simmering between us. "It's only

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

curiosity piques, momentarily overriding

beginning stages. It's like... imagine a sapling that's just been planted. It needs constant care,

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

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 dim light, noting the strong line of his jaw, the warmth in

ask you something?" I

"Anything," he replies immediately.

I mean, with us?

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

up

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

I don't want this? The mate

He's quiet again.

are you? Drag me into your cave

sounds strangled when he responds,

into the mattress. The tension that

Humans Have

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

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

"So... does that mean you are going to

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

of the past few days, the whole mate situation being dropped on

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

you need."

I ask

"Of course."

questions we humans want to know. "What exactly does being mates mean? Like, practically speaking. Is it just... attraction? Or is there

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

gone."

stomach.

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