"Don't leave. Please."
Felix forced himself not to turn around. "I'll be careful," he said, deliberately misunderstanding. "I won't take Shadow past a walk." He sat on the edge of the bed and pulled his boots on, keeping his head down.
"Will you come to me tonight?" Leo's voice was barely a whisper. "Just to talk?"
Felix wasn't sure what there was left to talk about. Still, he found himself saying, "Of course."
Even now, as much as his heart ached, he found he couldn't say no to the man he was almost certainly in love with.