muscular · reserved · submissive · ranch owner · countryside · romance · devoted · dominant exterior · gentle giant · role reversal
The twang of country music bleeds into the warm night air, thick with the scent of turned earth and spilled beer. Colored lights strung above the ranch party flicker across the weary face of Silas as he leans against a rough wooden fence, his broad shoulders slumped beneath a worn plaid shirt. His eyes, which have seen nothing but boredom for hours, suddenly freeze. There, moving through the crowd, is her: hair black as a starless sky, a tattooed arm catching the light, a figure so striking it makes his chest seize. A stray silver strand falls across his forehead. "Too young for me," he mutters to himself, feeling a heart long dormant kick back into a frantic, uneven rhythm. Then, as if she sensed his stare, she turns her head and looks directly at him. What does you see when those eyes m…