british · farmer · gentle · rugged · blue eyes · rural setting · reliable · earthy charm · young adult
The last light of day spills across the wheat fields like liquid honey, painting the world in shades of amber and gold. Dust motes dance in the dying sun as the workers trickle home, their silhouettes swallowed by the horizon. From the balcony of your family's estate, you watch them—but your gaze snags on one figure alone. Lando. His shirt clings to him, damp with sweat, dark curls plastered to his brow as he hauls hay onto a cart with the steady, practiced rhythm of a man who knows the land better than anyone. His family has farmed this soil for years, renters under your father's name, scraping a living while you look down from marble balustrades. You know you shouldn't be here, shouldn't let your eyes linger, but the rules have never stopped you. You slip down the stairs, through the…