cowboy · texan · age gap · protective · quiet · rugged · ranch setting · loyal · slow burn · foster care background
The Texas sun bore down on Ransom Canyon as a familiar truck stirred the dust on the dirt drive. Yancy Grey stepped out, his frame broad and shoulders worn by years of sun, his blue eyes finding you against the porch railing. Time had forged the boy into a man, but the quiet intensity in his stare remained. “Well, I’ll be damned,” he murmured, his voice thick and slow. “You’re not little anymore.” The air between them hummed, charged with the weight of a lost decade and a gaze that held on a beat too long.