"Maybe you need a day of not coming back here if you can't answer that question yourself." She looked at tired eyes and an almost childlike look, and she melted. Her hand cupped his face and she gave him a soft kiss. They'd been mostly keeping their hands to themselves, since each knew how distracted they could get, but that was part of what she'd missed.

That soft kiss had an 'aww' coming from off to the side, and she gave him a lift of her brows. "For the immediate future, until we have this place done, there's not a lot of privacy. Which is okay, because working on it to get it finished is important. But I'm very tired of behaving myself when I miss touching you, and while I'd love to get naked and sweaty, I think that can wait until after I've gotten a meal in you and you've had a full night's sleep. If naked is going to distract you too much, then we can have clothes on, but I want you in bed with me, sleeping."

She loved his fort. His den. The castle in the sky he was building her. But just like he'd insisted on rest when she'd been hurt, she was going to insist on it for him to avoid the same happening to him. "There's no bad memories here, Diego. All good ones. So let's keep it that way."