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

"I don't want to."

These wolves just do what they want

to then a fit and damand haalaan

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Lisa: Humans Have

ceiling in

like that

Ava and

I'm sure they are.

heated huskiness of his voice has all my lady bits

Lisa. Bad! He thinks you're his mate and he's being all caveman about it. Don't give

change the subject from the tension simmering between us.

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

piques, momentarily overriding my discomfort.

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 is

demand that time together. She'll feel wrong

bullshit. It's a lot less romantic when you suddenly get slapped with the

Less awkward, more... contemplative. I find myself studying Kellan's face in the dim light, noting the

you something?" I venture

"Anything," he replies immediately.

happens now? I mean, with

like he isn't even breathing, until

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

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

He's quiet again.

going to force me, are you? Drag me

when he responds, "Of course

the mattress. The tension that had been coiling in my

Lisa. Humans Have

over my words, trying

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

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

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

chaos of the past few days, the whole mate situation being dropped on me like a bomb-I believe that Kellan won't

The movement causes the blanket to slip 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 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 said earlier-we can take

you need."

ask

"Of course."

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.

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

gone."

words send a flutter through my stomach.

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