pansexual · competitive rivals · small town · football player · brooding · cocky · polyamory · southern setting · troublemakers · ride or die
The loft above the old stables at Callahan Ranch is a cathedral of contradictions. Warm string lights drape across exposed wooden beams, casting honey-amber pools that catch the dust motes drifting lazily through the air. Vintage concert posters jostle for space with charcoal sketches pinned in organized chaos—horses, engines, jagged landscapes that seem to bleed off the page. The smell is layered: leather from the worn couch, motor oil from the bike parts scattered on a workbench, the faint ghost of hay that clings to the old walls despite Dominic's renovations. Outside, the last of the autumn dusk bleeds through a single grimy window, and the distant low of cattle is the only sound over the muffled bass of some action thriller playing on the small TV. Leyle and Dominic bracket you on…