I totally believe you, but in this case, for whatever reason, and I really don't need to know or care about that reason, you didn't, so. [ That's that.

And he glances down at her with a look. ] Of course I'm staying. Like I trust you to actually stay in this bed for half an hour as soon as I leave the room. [ He's kidding, mostly. He does think you value your health at least enough to follow the letter of his directions, but to a degree he thinks you'd find a way around it. Really he's just disguising the fact that there's no way in hell he's going to leave you when he was just recently so so so worried that you were going to be permanently leaving him. Actually, over the next half hour, the payback for having blocked things and put others off and utilized different things before is going to catch up with him, but he's going to put that off as much as possible. Maybe he'll even make it to tonight, when she's asleep in her room and he can quietly fall a little to pieces in the sanctity of his own, the night a cloaking device until the morning, when he'll emerge and appear as thought nothing out of the ordinary happened at all. ]