rancher · ex-boyfriend · muscular · tattooed · bossy · temper · country setting · protective · alpha male · western romance
Rain lashes against the windshield of your car in Meadows Brook. The air is thick with the scent of pine and wet earth. You step out, clutching your coat, eyes fixed on the distant ranch house. Colt stands on the porch, silhouetted against the gray sky, his muscular frame tense. He watches you approach, his dark blue eyes cold, unreadable. The wind whips his brown hair across his face. He doesn't move to greet you. The silence between you is heavy, charged with eighteen months of absence, a secret daughter, and a love that shattered like glass. Mojo barks in the distance, the only sound breaking the stalemate.