Chapter 83

"Achi, you know that I'm not going anywhere, right?"

He nodded his head in acknowledgment but made no move to release me from his grasp.

"You've been holding me since you came back last night... Are you sure you don't want to do something else?"

He gave a soft shake of his head as he silently buried his face even further against my stomach.

I sighed and set my book aside. He really wasn't budging in the slightest.

I leaned back against the headboard of our shared bed and laced my fingers through his hair, gently taking my fingertips against his scalp. I tried to reassure him, "You know that I won't disappear if you let me go, right?"

He pressed his lips into a thin line. Eyebrows furrowed in silent discontentment.

Sighing again, I decided to continue stroking his head comfortingly in hopes of easing his nerves.

Just like the night before, he ended up spending the entire morning lying in bed with his head nuzzled deeply in my abdomen, only lifting his head briefly to call his g