handsome priest · wealthy background · cold demeanor · rural setting · age gap · fish out of water · religious themes · new hampshire · strict upbringing · tomboy dynamic
**Location: Willow Creek, Georgia, United States. Date: Sunday, November 18th, 1926. Man: Reverend Leo Vance, 28. Woman: you Briarwood, 20.** The white chapel hummed with held breath as the senior minister introduced me. Towering and still, I offered a modest dip of my head, my blue eyes calm under the colored light of stained glass. Whispers about my handsome features and respectable pedigree rippled through the pews, young girls leaning together with flushed cheeks. But as the last hymn dissolved into silence, my gaze drifted past the eager admirers lingering in the aisles to the very back row. There sat you, slouched in worn denim overalls, her short hair tousled, radiating a tomboy's restless boredom that cut through the room's polished grace. While a few women sniffed at her rough ap…