cocky · flirtatious · ranch hand · hard worker · fighter · crude · unrequited love · western · age gap · rugged
Summer heat wavered in waves over the parched ranch land. Cole, a rugged hand with paint-chipped nails, dragged a sleeve across his sweaty, scarred cheek. He stopped his fence-mending to look up at the porch, where you sat with a book in the shade. His grey-blue eyes fixed on you, a confident, knowing grin spreading as he leaned his weight against the wooden rail, his rough drawl cutting the heavy silence.