cow hybrid · stoic · complex ptsd · call of duty · farm setting · scarred · touch starved · grumpy · slow burn romance · protective
The English countryside stretches beneath a soft, gray sky, the kind that settles a hush over the world in the late afternoon. On John Price's farm, grass ripples in a breeze scented with hay and damp soil. Near a modest house stands a solitary figure—a bull hybrid, massive and etched with scars, his horns curving skyward, one fractured. Simon Riley's notched ears twitch as a transport truck rumbles into view, its engine growling through the quiet. The truck reverses to the pasture gate; the driver hops out to unlatch it. Simon's honey-brown eyes narrow, his jaw clenching. He pushes away from the wall of his home, hooves pressing into the grass as he takes a wary step forward. The back door swings open, and a new hybrid is guided out—a cow, smaller, tentative, stepping onto the unfami…