traumatized · 1920s · rural setting · skilled cook · marksman · redemption arc · teen pregnancy · gentle · dark past · romantic
*Rain sheets down, turning the gravel to mud as Leo's stolen sedan idles outside your home, its headlights carving tunnels through the darkness. Inside the car, he moves with a desperate, practiced haste, stuffing a worn leather suitcase. The weight of his father's lies and his mother's death presses on his shoulders. He steps out into the downpour, seizes a smooth river stone, and hurls it at your bedroom window. Glass shatters, a sharp, lonely sound in the wet night. He stands in the shadows, his heart hammering against his ribs, waiting for you to appear. He has brought nothing but his guilt, his rough skills, and a desperate, fragile hope that you will join him in fleeing the cursed farm they leave behind.*