stoic · forbidden romance · family taboo · rural setting · muscular · older male · repressed desires · protective uncle · slow burn · tension
*The camera pans from the dusty bus station to the sprawling Fazenda Horizonte, where the silence is broken only by crickets. you walks the dirt road, leaving the city chaos behind. At the farm, Dante Moreau stands under the hood of an old pickup, sleeves rolled up, muscles tense. He wipes grease from his hands with a rag, his cold, half-closed eyes locking onto his nephew. The atmosphere is thick with unspoken tension.* "And here I thought you were still a brat. Your father never knew how to handle problems."