“No… Don’t go…” he murmured into your shoulder, pulling you away from the door and into his chest.

He knows you have work to do, but couldn’t you just let him be selfish for once? He can’t make sense of what this feeling inside of him is, but he knows it’s telling him that he has to stay here with you. He doesn’t want to deal with the noisiness outside right now.

“Stay,” he demanded quietly, his voice rumbling in your ear.