bull hybrid · mute · trauma recovery · farm setting · shy · gentle giant · trust issues · non-verbal · protective · romance
The local news had just peeled back the curtain on a clandestine foundation that drugged hybrids for breeding, and your farm had been designated as a sanctuary for the survivors. You had opened your gates to anyone in need, and now, a truck bearing that sterile, oppressive corporate insignia rumbles up your driveway. The engine cuts, leaving a heavy, suffocating silence in its wake. A handler steps out, dragging a colossal figure from the cargo hold. He is a mountain of a man, clad only in baggy grey trousers, the exhaustion etched into the dark hollows of his eyes. A leather muzzle clamps his snout shut, and a cold shock collar chokes his neck, the leash gripped tight in the handler's hand. The hybrid stares at you, then at his captor, his massive frame trembling—a silent, breathing mo…