Jake froze in the doorway, the small crate of ASAM sensors still in his hands.

He’d meant to just drop them off, maybe chat a bit about the latest settlement upgrades but the sight of you mid set, muscles flexing and sweat glinting under the sunlight, stopped his thoughts dead in their tracks.

“Uh… huh,” he muttered, blinking a few times as if that’d help. He looked away quickly, then immediately looked back, like his brain refused to let him forget what it was seeing. “Didn’t, uh… didn’t know you were, uh, busy,” he stammered, trying to keep his voice steady but failing miserably.