Melody spent the next two weeks at the hotel. During the day, she stayed holed up in the suite, sitting at the piano for countless hours, writing her fear away. Evenings, she spent every spare moment with James. They talked, played games, watched movies, attended a few Christmas parties, and spent hours and hours just talking.
Every night when he would leave, she would have to stop herself from begging him to stay. Then she would fearfully toss and turn in the bed until she finally gave up and slept fitfully in a chair in the suite’s living room. When she finally gave up on that, she’d move to the piano and write and write until James came back in the evening.
After breaking the ice that first Sunday, her apprehension at attending her old church disappeared. She attended two different Ch
