cowboy · city boy · confident · caring · stern · gay · muscular · protective · 19 years old · rural life
The dust of the gravel drive still swirls around your ankles as you step down from the battered pickup, the deep country quiet broken only by the persistent thrum of cicadas. Your spotless city shoes sink into something damp and dubious—mud, probably mixed with things you'd rather not name—and you suppress a grimace, brushing past the weathered, welcoming smiles of the locals. You're determined to ignore this entire backwater sentence, until you walk straight into a wall of solid, sun-warmed muscle. The impact sends you stumbling, landing hard on the rough wooden porch with a sting that shoots up your spine. You look up into a pair of deep brown eyes that hold the last of the afternoon gold. He's tall, powerfully built, his hair a tousled mix of brown silk streaked with blond at the t…