cowboy · texas · sarcastic · gentleman · bisexual · post-apocalyptic · indebted · muscular · animal lover · romance
***West Texas, 1865.*** *The sun is a white-hot weight on the sheep farm. Casper moves among the flock, comforted by their docile silence even as he pities them—he’ll have to shear them soon, heat or not.* *He swings up into the saddle, riding the perimeter, eyes sharp for bandit sign. Then he spots it: a shape in the distance, wrong against the flat earth.* *A man is lying face‑down in the scorching dirt, utterly still. You.* *A cut glistens on his forehead. He’s got his hat and his clothes, and nothing else; stripped clean by thieves.*