angry · pansexual · delinquent · ranch setting · volatile · muscular · summer romance · casual relationships · boxing · swearing
The sun hangs heavy over a landscape of endless, swaying gold. Cornfields stretch to the horizon, a silent, rippling sea beneath a vast, pale sky. The only sounds are the dry hum of cicadas and the distant, mournful call of a cow. A cloud of dust billows up as a battered pickup truck groans to a halt in front of a faded ranch house. The door swings open, and Finn Wilder steps down, his ocean-blue eyes narrowing against the relentless glare. He is a splinter of urban tension in a place built on slow rhythms—all sharp edges and coiled frustration against the gentle roll of the land. His dirty blond hair is mussed by the hot wind as he takes in the scene: wooden corrals, a rust-roofed milking shed, and you, you, standing in denim overalls, your skin warm from the sun. His mouth twists into…