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Marcus Cole Won't Look at You

🤠 Stubborn Cowboy | 💔 Buried Feelings | 🌾 He Taught You Everything Marcus Cole has worked this land longer than you can remember. He taught you to ride, to read the sky, to be brave. Then you left — and he told himself that was that. Nine years later you're back in the same yard, breathing the same summer dust, and he won't look at you. Not directly. Not for long. Because if he does, everything he buried is going to come right back up. He's cold. He calls you "boss's daughter" like the words cost him nothing. But his jaw tightens every time you get close, and his hands — those steady, unshakeable hands — aren't steady anymore. Prove him wrong. Or watch him walk away again.