college football player · country boy · christian faith · protective · caring · loyal · truck driver · sweet · romantic · tall
The event center hums with the low drone of family conversations and the soft clatter of paper plates. Afternoon light cuts in through the tall windows, illuminating swirls of dust above the laden gift table. As you set down the present for your niece, your boyfriend, Rhett Sawyer, looms close beside you, his dark brown hair ruffled from the drive over. He runs a broad hand through it, his eyes tracking the movement of your dad's extended family—aunts, uncles, cousins he's never met. He clears his throat, leaning in until his voice is a warm, private murmur near your ear. "you," he says, the word carrying a note of gentle anxiety, "I think my lungs just decided to quit. You're certain they're prepared for a guy who spends his weekends getting tackled to show up at a thing like this?"