Stone smiled again and I could see all his perfect teeth. He continued to watch my matching grin before bending down and kissing the top of my head.

"Why did you knock on the door?" I questioned as I had only just noticed that he had.

There was no reply from him.

"This is your home." I said to him softly before I asked again "Why did you knock?"

His reply got lost in the air as the front door of the house opened quickly and revealed a delighted Mrs Lewis who I suspected had been watching us from the window a few seconds ago

She waved us in with a large smile on her face and once we were both in the house and the door had closed, she snatched me into a hug.

I quickly wrapped my arms around Mrs Lewis, and I noticed that was still wearing her work uniform. A pair of blue scrubs.

Mrs Lewis pulled back with a grin still in place as she cupped my face and squeezed my cheeks "Ella, it is so good to see you. I have been trying to get Stone to bring you here again for a week now. I have also been trying to get him to bring himself here."

Her tone had gone sterner at the end of her sentence, so I found myself apologising "I am really sorry. It is kind of my fault. He has been staying with me."

"Of course, it is not your fault, sweet girl." She said softly, squeezing my face again "It is his. Do not get me wrong, I was cheering when I found out that he was staying with you but I thought he would at least come back to visit his old folks."

The meddling Mrs Lewis was now scowling at Stone with her arms on her waist and that led him to let out a small sorry.

"It is fine." She waved him off and her smile reappeared "As long as you two are together now."

I let out a nervous laugh.

Mrs Lewis sighed as she pointed to Stone "Honestly if you had left it any later to tell Ella that you loved her, I was planning to do it myself."

The black eyes widened slightly like he had no clue that she knew that he was in love or that she knew that he had told me.

My eyes were wide too. If it was not for the hospital scrubs that she had on, I would think that the woman was a detective or behaviour analyst.

Her voice sounded all dreamy as she addressed Stone again "Do not give me that look, boy. Someone as far away as mars could see that you are crazy about her."

Stone did not look embarrassed. Not at all. He just let out a single deep chuckle and looked over at me.