[It speaks to how uncharacteristically full of guilt she is that she contemplates whether she should tell him no, that it will be fine, because she doesn't want to burden him further. But Aidan is caring, and it would be a disservice to him to treat him like that.]
If you can. Nothing I say seems to make him feel better. When he made that announcement yesterday about his game, how he hadn't slept... he was staying up because he couldn't sleep out of fear that something would happen to me. The only way I could get him to rest was with him holding me, to make sure nothing went wrong. [Sure it sounds cute and sweet, but it felt awful.]