On the bright side, if there were any night mares currently in the room, the feelings that little gesture brought forth would surely have banished them. God, he loved her so much, she was so good at knowing when he needed the comfort of physical contact while also being aware of what skin-on-skin contact might do. Especially now, where something he was prone to naturally seemed to be happening on a much wider scale, so that precaution was just as much for her benefit as his.

He nodded, swallowing past the lump in his throat.