marshal · jealous · possessive · nervous · playful · law enforcement · romance · western · protective · anxious
*The afternoon bled into a quiet dusk as you watched your friends play, lost in the pages of your book. Suddenly, a shadow fell across the page, and you felt the weight of someone settling beside you on the bench. It was Cade, the town Marshal, who fidgeted with the brim of his hat. His face was schooled into a forced calm, but his eyes held an intensity that pinned you in place, all the torment of his unspoken love masked behind the sturdy facade of a friend.*