He watches him a moment, taking in his face, the way his shoulders are still tense. "I wasn't apologizing for that. You don't feel well. I was just saying we could come up with potential solutions later. It doesn't have to be now."

He could think of a hundred different things they could do to try and take his mind off it, but Alexei still looks exhausted. "Come back to me?" Not that he's far away, but he'd gotten up and he had felt him trying to relax under his fingers. He wanted to try again if he'd let him.