Page 36 of Resisting Your Love

"It's time for you to come home," I stated.

She scoffed. "I don't have a home to come back to."

My heart broke all over again at her words, but it wouldn't be the final words she said to me. If she thought so, she told a lie.

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way. Either way, it goes, you coming home," I demanded. This wasn't a damn game.

"What do you want, Levi?" she snapped.

"What I want is for you to bring your ass home. You know what? You don't have to move. Stay your ass right there. I'll come get you." I jumped up from my bed. Amryn was stubborn as hell, but I knew it was my fault she acted this way.

She hung up the phone in my face. My mouth dropped as I eyed the phone. Nah, she had to be bullshitting.

I used the keycard that was given to me to enter the hotel room. There was no telling what was about to greet me, but I was prepared for it. I wasn't leaving unless Amryn was leaving with me, even if I had to throw her over my shoulder, kicking and screaming. I heard the TV on in the bedroom and went toward it. Amryn was lying across the bed, not paying the TV any attention, but was on her phone. I went to take a seat on the edge of the bed. She didn't even acknowledge me.

"So, this is what we're doing?" I asked her. I semi-turned to look at her to see what she would do or say.

She kept looking straight ahead, ignoring me. "We aren't doing anything. I don't know what you want me to do or say. You can't demand me to come back to a place where I'm not welcome."

I pressed my lips together to keep from lashing out. "Man, I called you up and told you to come home. Don't try to act like you're hard or some shit. Then you had me drive across town to get to your ass. Don't do that, man. What the hell do you want me to do or say? We both need to work on some things. I'm not saying I'm not wrong for the way I handled things, but don't you think you are wrong too?"

Amryn finally looked at me with a scowl on her face. "What am I wrong about?" She sat up on the bed.

My eyes widened. "Are you serious right now? You kept your ex calling you to yourself and didn't let me know. Don't you think I have that right?"

Amryn averted her eyes from me. "Yes, you do have that right, but if I told you, you'd probably go off on him. You had already hit him."

I dropped my head. "And what's your point? You are my wife, and nobody needs to be calling you but me. He's your ex and needs to know his place. When he first started to call you, you should have let me know, not tried to hide it."

"I wasn't trying to hide it," she retorted. "If you don't believe me, I don't know what to say to you."

I swiped my tongue across my lips, not at all liking the way the conversation was going. I scooted closer to Amryn and grabbed her hands in mine, needing to touch her. She looked over at me with tears in her eyes, and my heart shattered. I didn't want her to cry again. I couldn't take her tears.

"Levi, I don't want you to ever think I would keep something from you to deceive you in any way. That was never my intention when Joel was calling me. I thought he would eventually stop, but he didn't. Even when I told him to, he was still calling me."

I clenched my jaw muscles as my nose flared. "I see he won't stop until I beat his ass. When I see him, all bets are off. That's the type of man that won't leave a woman alone until he gets put in his place, which is something I'll have to do."

She sighed deeply. "See what I mean. Joel's not even worth you going to jail over for fighting him."

I stared her in the eyes and responded, "But you are worth me going to jail over. That man knows what the hell he's doing. He should have appreciated you when he had you. Now that he sees that you've moved on from him, he wants to come back. Nah, he had his turn and fucked up. Damn him. You are mine. I'll kill him," I huffed.

"No," she snapped. "It won't come to that. I'm just going to change my number. It's time for me to do so anyway."

I nodded, liking that idea. "Yeah, you need to go ahead and do that, but on the real, I apologize for the way I handled things. I want us to start over and, this time, get it right. I was wrong for saying the only thing between us was the contract. I mean, it is,but this between us that we're building is much deeper than that. You matter a whole lot to me. Hell, even more than that. I love you, Amryn."

She squeezed my hand in hers as tears clouded her eyes yet again. "I love you too, Levi. I want us to get this right as well. You cut me deeply when you brought up the contract. Just when I thought that was behind us, it was like a reminder of it when you said that."

"If I could, I would beat my own ass for saying that to you. Something like that will never ever leave my mouth ever again. If it does, I give you permission to slap the hell out of me."

"Deal." She was quick to say, and I laughed.

"Yeah, you would like to do that, huh?"

She only chuckled with a nod.

"Will you come back home with me? The house and I miss you a lot. It's time for you to sleep back in my arms." I unwrapped my hands from hers and pulled her onto my lap. I began getting an erection the minute her ass made contact with my dick. "Yeah, he missed you, too."

Amryn dropped her head, trying to hide a blush.

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