diff --git a/modules/init-require.el b/modules/init-require.el
index 67684085..9323e718 100644
--- a/modules/init-require.el
+++ b/modules/init-require.el
@@ -239,33 +239,35 @@ Please see Commentary in init-require.el for more details."
      ;; eval.
      `(,@(when (bound-and-true-p use-package-compute-statistics)
            `((use-package-statistics-gather :config ,feature nil)))
-       (if (featurep ,feature)
-           ,feature
-         (condition-case-unless-debug err
-             (unwind-protect
-                 (if (< 3 (cl-count ,feature exordium--require-nesting-list))
-                     (error
-                      "Recursive `exordium-require' for feature `%s', require-nesting-list: %s"
-                      ,feature exordium--require-nesting-list)
-                   (push ,feature exordium--require-nesting-list)
-                   (exordium--require-load ,feature ,location)
-                   (if (featurep ,feature)
-                       ,feature
-                     (if-let* ((file (caar load-history)))
-                         (error "Loading file %s failed to provide feature `%s'"
-                                file ,feature)
-                       (error "Required feature `%s' was not provided"
-                              ,feature))))
-               (when (eq ,feature (car exordium--require-nesting-list))
-                 (pop exordium--require-nesting-list)))
-           (error
-            (display-warning 'exordium-require
-                             (format "%s: %s"
-                                     ,feature (error-message-string err))))))
-       ,@(when (bound-and-true-p use-package-compute-statistics)
-           `((use-package-statistics-gather :config ,feature t)))
-       ,@(when (bound-and-true-p use-package-compute-statistics)
-           `((use-package-statistics-gather :use-package ,feature t)))))))
+       (prog1
+           (if (featurep ,feature)
+               ,feature
+             (condition-case-unless-debug err
+                 (unwind-protect
+                     (if (< 3 (cl-count ,feature exordium--require-nesting-list))
+                         (error
+                          "Recursive `exordium-require' for feature `%s', require-nesting-list: %s"
+                          ,feature exordium--require-nesting-list)
+                       (push ,feature exordium--require-nesting-list)
+                       (exordium--require-load ,feature ,location)
+                       (if (featurep ,feature)
+                           ,feature
+                         (if-let* ((file (caar load-history)))
+                             (error "Loading file %s failed to provide feature `%s'"
+                                    file ,feature)
+                           (error "Required feature `%s' was not provided"
+                                  ,feature))))
+                   (when (eq ,feature (car exordium--require-nesting-list))
+                     (pop exordium--require-nesting-list)))
+               (error
+                (display-warning 'exordium-require
+                                 (format "%s: %s"
+                                         ,feature (error-message-string err)))
+                nil)))
+         ,@(when (bound-and-true-p use-package-compute-statistics)
+             `((use-package-statistics-gather :config ,feature t)))
+         ,@(when (bound-and-true-p use-package-compute-statistics)
+             `((use-package-statistics-gather :use-package ,feature t))))))))
 
 (provide 'init-require)