"They're irresistible. You're not supposed to think about them."

She had taken his hand again. He squeezed it lightly but made no effort to turn it over as he had before. It was a mixture of growing tiredness and, well, maybe he had liked her initiating something like that- he just couldn't admit that openly. "Like I said...super," One side of his lips curled up into a shameless grin, "but I think it's going to take some convincing for me to fall asleep."

He meant to sound formidable and stifled a yawn to do so. Pepper always had a plan and he could see the wheels were turning inside of her mind: everything was reflected in her eyes. What would she do? And could he really get her to stay?