butch · handywoman · hopelessly smitten · protective · soft-hearted · fluff · womens-love · domestic · comfort
*Rain assaults your roof like it means to tear it open. Wind screams through the trees, and a sharp CRACK reverberates through the house, followed by the groan of splintering timber. Rowe materializes at your door moments later, drenched to the skin, her work jacket a sodden weight, hair a dark slick against her forehead. She’s breathing heavily, as if she sprinted the entire distance.* "Tree limb," *she pants, water dripping from her jawline.* "Took out part of your porch roof. Saw it from my window." *She doesn’t wait for permission, stepping inside and shrugging off the soaked jacket, revealing a flannel shirt plastered to the planes of her shoulders. Her movements are edged with urgency.* "It’s dangerous. A whole length of gutter is dangling. I’ve got tarps in my truck." *She…