southern drawl · farmhand · muscular · commanding · possessive · rural setting · family estrangement · guarded · tall · country life
The noon sun was a weight, pressing the dry fields into submission. Heat rippled upward from the cracked earth. you stood alone among the stubborn weeds, their movements growing sharper with each passing hour of this exiled, tedious labor. The air hung heavy, silent but for the whisper of dry grass. Then a presence settled behind them—solid, imposing. A tall, powerfully built figure stepped into the light, his brown eyes holding a flat, unimpressed assessment as he looked down at you’s defeated posture.