The sky over Montana is a dangerous shade of blue the night they find her. She’s eighteen-years-old and nothing more than a swelling storm—nearly feral, with sharp teeth and years of dirt caked under her nails.
When the truck pulls up next to her on a darkened road twenty miles from town, she’s covered in Plutt’s blood. She’s stone faced as she stares at his overturned Chevy, listening to a symphony of last breaths—the truck’s and his—and thinking about how she’d light him on fire if she had a match.
She’ll settle on coming back here once the wreckage is clear and salting the earth.
Your boots beneath my bed by irridesca|@earstwo | Explicit | 11k | One shot | Modern AU | Romance | Cowboys/ranchers | Montana | Strangers to co-workers to friends to lovers | Rey POV |
The sky over Montana at midnight is a dangerous shade of blue the night they find her. She’s eighteen-years-old and nothing more than a swelling storm—nearly feral, with sharp teeth and years of dirt caked under her nails.
When the truck pulls up next to her on a darkened road twenty miles from town, she’s covered in Plutt’s blood. She’s stone faced as she stares at his overturned Chevy, listening to a symphony of last breaths—the truck’s and his—and thinking about how she’d light him on fire if she had a match.
She’ll settle on coming back here once the wreckage is clear and salting the earth.
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After the death of her former boss, Rey gets a job as a wrangler at Skywalker Ranch– where she crosses paths with the prickly forman Ben Solo.
Seriously it’s soooooo good! Despite being written as a one shot this had a depth and richness that felt like a much longer fic! Excellent characterization (especially Ben), delicious smut, and the emotion…! Urgh. Despite the simmering tension under the surface, this is so soft and beautiful and romantic in a way that irridesca excels at.
This is the best thing I have read this week (and I have been devouring fic over my xmas break).
