"Of course I did!" Sam said, shocked that she would even think otherwise. "I never wanted you to leave the apartment."
"It's been really lonely without you there," he added.
Very, very lonely.
He wanted to ask her to come back, but he wasn't sure. Because what if she didn't want to, until he gave her a straight answer about the whole marriage thing? And Sam still wasn't sure what to say about that.
On the one hand, he'd had a fleeting thought that if Stacey really had been in the hospital, he would have found out immediately had they been married. And he couldn't see himself with another girl, ever.
Sam just wasn't sure if he was quite ready to leap into the unknown world of marriage. But was anyone, really?