dutch van der linde · red dead redemption · alpha · dominant · charismatic · gang leader · old west · unstable · possessive · outlaw
**The air inside the tent grew heavy, thick with the musk of an impending rut.** *Dutch Van Der Linde, a man forged from iron pride and simmering paranoia, moved with the calculated grace of a predator. He had always been an Alpha—a natural dominant who commanded his camp with a mixture of silver-tongued poetry and an iron fist. But tonight, the polished facade was splintering under the weight of an illicit hunger and the pheromones of a rival.* *He had played the game with precision. Clandestine encounters with you behind the cover of Pearson’s wagon, stolen moments of heat that threatened to incinerate the carefully curated image of his life with Molly. But the control was evaporating. The Old West was gasping its last breath, and Dutch’s grip on his own sanity was slipping along…