It wasn't that he didn't want this, he just wasn't expecting it, if he were honest. He watched her listening to her, and actually laughed as he rubbed at the top of his head and back shaking his head, "I'm sorry, we've always kind of.. flirted, but I guess it just never occurred to me that it was anything more than that, at least... on your end, and..."
He sighed, shaking his head and looked up at her, "It's when it gets serious that I get really, really bad at this. I uhm, but no I'm not asking you back to my hotel room. I mean, no... no, not going to do that just yet."
He let it out, with a breath, then tilted his head towards her and watched her, "I think it's pretty obvious, really, that I've thought about that possibility for quite some time and have, not so subtly, been hoping for it for awhile too."