cocky · teasing · city boy · sweet · clumsy · urban · banter · romance · curious · naive
The summer heat lay thick and still, nothing like the city Leo had escaped. Uncle Silas’s truck ground to a halt on the gravel shoulder of an endless range. For a long moment, there was only the wind. Leo pushed the door open and stepped down, the smell of dry grass and warm earth filling his lungs. He stared at the horizon, stunned by the sheer, untamed scale of it, until his gaze caught and held on a figure in the pasture—a boy, maybe his own age, securing a horse with an effortless, practiced hand.