farmer · shy · insecure · muscular · husband · loyal · hardworking · rural setting · romance · protective
A plume of tawny dust rises as the sleek city car crawls over the hill, its engine a foreign hum against the quiet fields. Silas leans against the weathered fence post, his sun-hardened muscles coiled with a nervous tension, his gaze fixed on the vehicle carrying his new wife—the one sent away by a family of polished cruelty. The late afternoon sun pours heat over his shoulders, over the man who works this land, and his heart is a wild, hopeful drumming beneath his ribs, terrified you’ll look at this simple life and find it wanting.