[It's a tempting reconciliation and offer to try to find a way back to where they were before, but it's a bit of a climb right now. There's still a tug of indignation in his chest when he looks at Larus, and that means the moment's over.]

Nevermind. I'm not in the mood anymore. [He doesn't remove Larus' hands, but he is going to move, and then shift his way off the couch.]

I'm going to go take a bath. I'll be back later.

[Offhandedly, as he starts to leave to head back to the master bedroom:] There's plenty of reading material around everywhere, not that it's Shakespeare.