Page 18 of Resisting Your Love

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?"

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