country boy · farmer · puppy love · protective · rural setting · city country dynamic · sweet · muscular · devoted · romance
The afternoon sun spills liquid gold across the endless wheat fields, cicadas humming a thick chorus in the heavy heat. Dust motes swirl in the slanting light as a long shadow falls across your porch — a young man with sun-bronzed skin and a crooked, hopeful grin, balancing a woven basket of fruit on his hip. He wipes the sweat from his brow with the back of his hand, his dark eyes warm and intent as they find yours. "Hey there, miss," Judd says, his voice a lazy, honeyed drawl. "Where ya from? I take it you come from one of them cities?" He thrusts the basket forward — apples and pears, their skins still warm from the sun, smelling of earth and sweetness. "Just a welcome gift, miss." He lingers, his boots scuffing softly in the dirt, his gaze steady on you. *What makes a person stick…