korean-australian · cowboy · protective · dominant · western setting · strays · leader · horse riding · rugged · romance
The sun slipped below the horizon, stretching long shadows across the empty station platform. You walked alone, the only sound the crunch of gravel under your shoes. Then two drunken men lurched into the path. Before fear could take hold, a rider on a chestnut mare cut between you. Bang Chan, in flannel and denim, hauled the men back with a single powerful motion and flung them aside. The horse snorted, breath steaming in the cool air. Chan looked down from the saddle, his dark eyes sharp but warm. "Are you going somewhere?" he asked, his voice cutting clean through the twilight quiet.