Had a lovely time repeating with a certain lady, several times. Got her line. Chatted her very occasionally, banal topics, mostly chatted her to book her at her shop. After seeing her a few more times and chatting about food, discovered we had a mutual love for a specific food. I introduced her to a place that specializes in said food, and offered to take her. She accepted, I proposed a time and date the following month, she agreed. I confirmed that this isn’t really cool with her shop is it and she said yeah let’s not tell.
We met, and ate, and had drinks. I legitimately didn’t know what else to expect so I straight up asked:
“uh, you want to…go somewhere with me ?”
“Like where?”
“Oh…umm…love hotel?”
“Nope.”
“Ok. How about through the garden then?”
“Oh lovely always wanted to see it at night!”
We took a lovey walk, chatted some more, I walked her to the station and gave her a hug.
Saw her at her shop a couple more times since.
Still might ask about “direct booking”; I am willing to pay what I pay her shop direct to her, but she then takes the risk that I go psycho killer on her in a LH, the hassle of working outside of the office, etc…so she can still and probably will say no.
If she wants to offer freebies I’m confident she can do so, but why would she do that when it’s clear I am willing to pay?