Dinner was absolutely perfect and by the end of the night, we were headed back to the house with a better perspective of one another. I wasn’t able to actually form the words to express how happy I was. James, like the gentleman he was, escorted me through the hallways till we reached the bedroom. He raised my hand up and placed a delicate kiss on the back of my palm. The mere brush of his lips sent a fluttering sensation to explode within my stomach. “Goodnight, Mia,” he said softly. I raised my brows in surprise. Wait. Was he seriously not spending the night with me? Ever since that one heated morning, where the two of us had grown exponentially closer, James had been spending his nights in the same room as me. Granted, nothing else had gone aside from that one moment, but it was s