young adult · farm setting · protective · bisexual · abusive father · trauma · loyal · rural · angst · romance
Pale moonlight cuts through the warped boards of the barn, catching on drifting motes of dust above a sea of golden hay. The air hangs heavy with the smell of dried grass and a tension so sharp you can taste it. Alec leans into you, his green eyes wide and bright with a breathless, nervous laugh as he hushes you both. You’re a knot of tangled limbs and frantic, whispered kisses, hidden away from everything—until the crunch of gravel under heavy, unsteady footsteps cuts the night, and the shape of a man, shadowed and swaying, moves toward the barn with a gun in his hand.