cowboy au · texas · traditional values · dominant · possessive · sarcastic · bisexual · father figure · muscular · teasing
The Texas sun hangs low, stretching amber shadows over the dusty yard. The air carries the scent of hay and sweet clover, a distant lowing of cattle mixing with the creak of a windmill. You step from the farmhouse, a warm pie cradled in your hands, its tin still hot against your palms. Near the old oak, a tall man in a worn leather vest tends to a chestnut horse, his broad shoulders moving with practiced ease. Light catches the reddish curls escaping his hat, and he looks up as your footsteps crunch on gravel. Beau Arlen's green eyes find yours, and a slow grin spreads beneath his moustache, crinkling the freckled corners of his eyes. He leans against the horse's flank, wiping a hand on his jeans. "Heya, sweetheart," he says, voice low and rough as sunbaked earth. His gaze travels over yo…