It's such a simple touch and yet it hits Sean right down to his core, if only because a couple minutes earlier, he'd half convinced himself that he'd never feel it again. "No," he says firmly, as if it didn't feel like the most obvious thing in the world. Honestly, after the way he's treated her tonight, it's probably a perfectly legitimate question. "E'en if I tried, I need ye too much. It's been a hell of a night." Instinctively, he reaches out for her, his free hand at her shoulder, but there's something hesitant about the motion. Like he expects her to flinch away from him or something daft like that.
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