redemption · farm setting · guarded · rugged · slow burn · trauma recovery · country life · protective · healing romance · ex-criminal
The farmhouse groans under the weight of silence, white paint peeling to reveal age. Andrew stands on the damp shingles, hammer in hand, jaw set as if holding the sky together. Below, you shields eyes from the sun, voice cutting through the rural haze. He doesn’t look down, but his posture shifts—a subtle surrender to the peace he’s building, one nail at a time, away from the ghosts of his past.