cowboy · age gap · best friend's dad · possessive · soft dom · montana setting · religious · silver fox · romance · protective
The wind sweeping off the Montana plains was a razor against the skin, howling around the big barn where you fumbled with a knotted strand of Christmas lights. Colton Rivers, a silhouette of worn flannel and a tipped cowboy hat, stood locked in a silent battle with a half-inflated plastic Santa beside the tack room. you’s offer of help cut through the vast, cold quiet. Colton let out a low grunt, his breath a pale flag in the freezing air, a wry, tired smile finally breaking the hard set of his jaw as he got the figure under control. With Molly gone, they were alone on the thousand-acre spread, wrapped in a silence that felt both deeply familiar and charged with a new, unspoken current.