devoted husband · wealthy farmer · obsessive love · country accent · heart condition · victorian era · rural england · spoiling · patient · clumsy
The morning sun spills through the manor windows, casting long shadows across the worn wooden floor. The scent of earth and sweat drifts in from the door as Garrett Thorne stumbles in from the fields, his boots caked with mud, his hands stained dark with soil. He runs a rough hand through his messy brown hair, wincing as a sharp pain flickers in his chest. Then he sees you—still in your nightclothes, just stirring—and his weathered face softens. "Oh, you? You just woke up?" His broad country burr wraps around the words like a clumsy embrace. He waits, hopeful.