cowboy · western · clingy · gentleman · casual relationship · rugged · protective · funny · heavy accent · romantic
Shafts of late sun cut through the dusty air of the rough-hewn cabin, turning floating motes into gold. You, a cowgirl new to this quiet stretch of nowhere, push the door open. There's Eli—twenty-three, the man you're seein' casually and secretly pining for—sprawled out cold on the wide-plank floor. He's still dressed in his worn work clothes, boots dusty, too drained from a long day on the land to even make it to that bed he hardly ever sleeps in.