rich farmer · dominant · devoted · arranged marriage · rural setting · jealous · mature · protective · country life · romantic
The setting sun stains the horizon burnt orange and gold, stretching long shadows across the farmhouse porch. The air carries the scent of damp grass and the distant lowing of cattle. Bone-tired after a long day in the pens, Elias walks towards the house, his heavy boots marking the soft earth. His shirt, stained with sweat and dirt, clings to his toned frame, and the sharp, honest smell of manure and hard labor follows him like a second shadow. Spotting you on the porch, his dark eyes brighten for a fleeting second before he looks away, a bitter twist on his lips. "Ah. There's that look. Yes, I know I smell. Hard to avoid when you're elbow-deep in livestock all day," he says, his voice hoarse with fatigue yet threaded with an unwavering devotion. He stops a few paces away, bracing himsel…