Page 10 of Resisting Your Love

"I still can't believe I am at the zoo. Thank you so much!" Amryn exclaimed, jumping up and down.

The only thing I could do was smile at her.

Since she told me about her love for animals and how she hadn't been to the zoo in a while, I surprised her with a trip this weekend.

I'd do it all over again just to see the look on her face.

Every waking moment I spent with her had me on a high I could barely explain.

She was getting under my skin, and that was something I wasn't expecting.

Not her. Not right now. We were just now getting to know each other.

I didn't know if it was a good or bad thing.

Since we shared that kiss the night of the event, we were kissing a lot more.

I didn't know when we got on the level that we were on, but I liked it.

Maybe a little too much. I didn't know if that was best or not, but I was willing to explore it if she was down to do so.

However, we were tied down by this arrangement, so I didn't know how we'd be able to overlook that.

That seemed to be hanging over our heads. It was hard not to think about.

I shook her thank you off. "Nah, you don't need to thank me. You mentioned you hadn't been to the zoo in a while. I figured why not, especially when we didn't have anything to do."

She shrugged, gnawing her bottom lip. There was something about her actions that excited me.

"Hmm, I guess you have a point. I don't know what I want to see first. The monkeys and gorillas are my favorite.

Plus, the aquarium." She turned to me. "What do you think?

" From the expression on her face, I couldn't help but lean down and kiss her lips.

If she wasn't rolling her eyes, she was gnawing that bottom lip of hers. I saw that she did both of them a lot. I asked her why she did it. She only shrugged and told me it was a habit.

"We can go to the aquarium first. That's what I want to see," I stated, grabbing her hand in mine.

The weather was cool today — not as cold as it had been for the past two days. For once, the sun was shining, but I could still feel the coolness. Amryn and I made sure we were bundled up in layers of clothes, too.

It was packed as hell out here at the zoo, but I wasn't going to let that bother me. As long as nobody got out of pocket, we'd be good. We walked around, laughing and joking together. It had been a while since I enjoyed myself like this. With Amryn, it came easily.

"I can't believe your family called you wild and reckless. You hadn't done any of that since we've been fake married," Amryn said out of the blue.

I chuckled. "Man, stuff like that gets tiring after a while. Before my parents did this, I was ready to slow my ass down. I got into a lot of shit while growing up. I even went to jail before."

She gasped. "No way!"

I nodded, dropping my head in shame. Jail was a place I didn't like. I never wanted to go back there again in life. "I stayed in there for a week. My parents thought it would teach me a lesson."

"Did it?" she asked.

I scoffed. "Man, hell no. I got out and did the same shit. It was worse, too."

We laughed.

She shook her head. "That's just terrible."

"Tell me about it, but I made sure I didn't end up back in jail though. Hell nah, I wasn't about to go back."

We laughed again. We randomly started sharing things about ourselves with each other.

No matter what we were doing, we always ended up talking about our past. It was something I looked forward to.

I had never met someone who was down to earth the way she was.

When Amryn got in her moods, I knew it meant to leave her alone, but I wanted to comfort her, too.

She told me it meant she was missing her mother when she was down like that.

Some days, I had the urge to take her in my arms and let her know it was going to be all right, but I knew I didn't have that right.

It was the things I thought about when she was around me that had me bewildered by it all.

Never would I have let my thoughts go places like that with anyone else.

What made her so different? I was someone who wasn't looking for a relationship, not now anyway, but with her, my thoughts got the best of me. It wasn't a safe place to be.

For dinner, we ended up stopping by The Subs' Inn. It had been a while since either of us ate there, and I thought it was best we stopped by.

"Do you cook?" I asked her.

She screwed up her face, causing me to laugh. "Oh, no, sir. I never learned or thought to learn since my father had a chef. Whatever I wanted to eat, all I had to do was call on him."

I nodded, understanding. "Even when I was living at home, I tried to cook for myself. I knew I wanted to leave the nest one day. And it came easy."

Amryn picked up her sub and bit into it. Even she made that look sexy. Everything she did was a turn-on. Maybe I was horny, but whatever the case might have been, I always found what she did sexy.

"What?" she asked when she caught me staring at her. "Do I have something on my face?" She reached for a napkin to wipe the corners of her mouth.

The only thing I could do was stare. I needed to snap out of it and get a damn grip. I had to shake my head to clear all thoughts of her.

"My bad. I zoned out."

"Uhm, I can see that." She took another bite out of the sub, wiping her mouth immediately.

"Why are we beating around the obvious?" I blurted.

She lifted her eyes to meet mine and chewed slowly. "Uhhh... I don't know how to answer that."

I chuckled. "Just answer it. What the hell is going on with us? Why can't I stop thinking about you?"

Her eyes widened. "What?"

I nodded, exhaling. "I'm confused as hell. It's not supposed to be this way."

Amryn nodded slowly. "You're right. It's not supposed to be. I don't know what it is. We are getting to know each other. Maybe that's it, and we don't hate each other either."

"Yeah, I don't hate you. You're not the reason this is going on, but I can admit that at first, I was prepared to hate your ass."

She laughed. "Hey, same here."

We chuckled. I hated beating around the bush with things.

I had to get that off my chest. We were growing closer, and the feelings I developed for Amryn seemed surreal.

I hadn't expected it to be this way, but here we were, laughing, joking, and touching one another.

The kisses we shared were heating up as well.

For us, we wanted to be just friends, but the kissing and touching put us on another level.

"Man, let's not talk about it. We're going to see how it plays out." I had to wave it off. Who knew how all of this would end? "Let's just continue to vibe how we're doing."

She nodded, picking up her sub. I glanced down at my roast beef sub and realized I didn't take a single bite out of it. I picked it up and began eating as well. We ate in silence for a while.

Our eyes bounced around the sub place but not at each other. I felt tension coming from her but didn't want to call her out on it. It was one I had never felt before. I had a feeling we were in trouble.

Later that night, after we took our showers, we were back downstairs in the living room, getting ready to watch a movie. Amryn looked worn out, as if the shower didn't help her at all.

I sat down next to her and smiled. "Why do you look worn out?"

She looked over at me and exhaled deeply. "My legs are sore from all that walking I did." She rubbed her legs, causing me to caress them with my eyes. I wanted my hands to be the ones to rub on her.

"Let me massage them? It might make them feel better," I offered.

She gnawed that bottom lip of hers, causing me to lean over and kiss her lips. Whenever she did that, I felt the need to kiss her. It had become a habit. One I didn't quite understand, but I didn't need to.

"Okay. I'll go get the lotion." She got up from the couch and headed out of the living room.

While Amryn was gone, I rubbed a hand down my face, trying to get myself together. To want to put my hands on her in that way, I didn't know what was going to come of it. I looked forward to it, though. I wanted to touch her — all over her body.

"Okay, I'm back. Those stairs just about took me out."

I cackled. "Man, I can't with you. It's only seven stairs."

Amryn scoffed. "Seven is too many."

I shook my head. "Man, you're too much."

She smiled and handed me the lotion, which was the kind she always used to. It smelled good as hell on her. This was about to be torture. I got up from the couch and peered down at her. She had the most innocent face I had ever seen, but I knew there was nothing innocent about her.

"Lay on your stomach," I instructed her.

Amryn did what I told her to do. Once I put some of the cream in my hand, I got down on my knees and tried not to stare at her ass, but that was hard to do. It was right there, and I had no choice. My mouth watered as my dick grew hard.

"Yeah, we're about to be in trouble," I mumbled.

"Hmm? What did you say?" she asked.

"Nothing." I began rubbing her foot first. One thing I could say about her was she was going to keep her feet and nails done. I loved that a lot.

A gasp slipped out of Amryn's mouth, and then a moan.

She was going to have to stop that, or we won't be finishing the massage.

I tried not to let her moans get to me, but my dick was painfully hard.

When I got to her thigh, I was on the verge of letting loose in my basketball shorts, so I had to stop.

"I can't continue. You keep moaning and shit," I growled, standing up from the floor.

Amryn sat up on the couch with her eyes bulging out of her head when she saw my erection. It was standing at attention, putting a tent in my shorts. There was no hiding it if I wanted to, and I didn't want to hide it at that point. I wanted her to touch it, stroke it, lick it, and fuck it.