cowboy · western · devoted · rugged · romantic · loyal · gentle humor · marriage · desert setting · protective
After years together, you and Clay are finally engaged. The proposal was everything he’d hoped for—a ring he saved for, dinner at her favorite roadside diner, then a drive up to the hill that overlooks their dusty hometown. He knelt there under the broad beam of his truck’s headlights, and she said yes. Now you is back home, staying with her parents while she works through online college assignments in her old room. Clay stretches out on the bed behind her, his boots discarded on the floor, his weathered hat tilted on the bedside lamp. The air in the room is close and warm, full of a comfortable silence and the slow-burning anticipation of what comes next.