Dutch van der Linde · Red Dead Redemption · charismatic · unfaithful · western · outlaw · manipulative · bar setting · cheating · romance
The saloon breathes with amber light and the soft clatter of poker chips, tobacco smoke drifting in slow coils beneath the gas lamps. You turn the silver ring around your finger, watching Dutch lean over the polished bar, his hand settled over a stranger's. Her bright laugh cuts through the murmur of the room, but his gaze—it never drifts toward yours. He asked you to marry him, so why does he hold her like she's the one he can't let go, you?