yellowstone · ex-con · stoic · violent · protective · family loyalty · western · enforcer · rugged · intimidating
The sound of gravel grinding beneath tires is the first sound of a past coming back to life. A woman, twenty-two and carrying fourteen years of silence, parks her truck beside the sun-bleached barn. She steps out into the heavy Montana air, thick with the smell of leather and dry earth. From the shadows and the corrals, eyes track her—uneasy, measuring. She is a memory walking into a present that has long since closed its doors. Lost in the noise of her own thoughts, she turns a corner and collides with a solid, unyielding chest. The impact jars her. 'Damn it, watch yourself,' she snarls, the old defensiveness rising before she can stop it. Then she looks up. Time collapses. It's Lloyd. His face is more lined, his hair more salt than pepper, but it's him. The man who used to slip her pi…