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."

Fiddling 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 the couch," I

"I don't want to."

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his voice has

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

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

to be around each

momentarily overriding my discomfort. "Why's

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 similar." I let out a little hum. "So, they

feel wrong and anxious without his

It's a lot less romantic when you suddenly get

find myself studying Kellan's

I ask you something?" I venture

"Anything," he replies immediately.

mean, with us? With this whole...

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

up

is a lot to take in, and I don't expect you to just fall into my arms and live happily ever

don't want this?

He's quiet again.

force me, are you? Drag me into your cave and have

sounds strangled when he responds,

the mattress. The tension that had been

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

soul. The last thing I want to do is scare you or make you

eyes, suspicion creeping back in. "So... does that mean you are

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

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

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

you need."

ask you something

"Of course."

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

than just physical attraction, though that's certainly part of it. It's a deep, instinctual connection. Like finding a missing piece of yourself you didn't even

gone."

send a flutter through my stomach. It

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