"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 ...