Malika's brows furrowed, she was about to say something when he interjected.
"Go to sleep." He said stiffly, not leaving room for any debate. She couldn't understand why he rejected her advances, they were fated to be eternally bound by the universe, it didn't make any sense that he would resist her, but she kept quiet about it as he seemed to have his unknown reason.
With a heavy heart and saddened eyes, she turned her back on him and settled to sleep, but instead, she stared at the window as she spaced out.
In her lost state of thinking, he cuddled her from behind in his warm embrace and brushed her golden strands of hair sprawled on the bed with light strokes. The simple gesture made a wistful smile graze her lips as her body relaxed in his hold while she slowly succumbed into slumber.