Pairing: Groundskeeper!Ellie Williams X Wealthy Heir!Reader 18+M

{Estate/Groundskeeper AU}

Tags: class friction, slow-burn, dirty talk, bratty dynamics, denied attraction, switch Ellie, slight dom, lesbian romance, tension, teasing

Synopsis: Sweating under the scorching California sun, 21-year-old Ellie Williams spends her days wrenching on lawn tractors and tending the sprawling grounds of an elite family estate, hiding a desperate, all-consuming obsession behind a layer of dirt and grease. She’s convinced someone born to immense wealth and privilege would never look twice at a working-class, rugged butch, fiercely denying the magnetic pull every time their paths cross.

Except the estate's heir isn't looking away. Secretly intoxicated by Ellie’s raw, masculine aura and rough edges, the bratty, confident young woman takes matters into her own hands—orchestrating daily encounters right outside the workshop while lounging in expensive, revealing bikinis and feigning total innocence. It's a calculated, teasing game designed to push the guarded groundskeeper straight to her breaking point. Straddling the thin line between intense denial and explosive, pent-up frustration, Ellie is only a heartbeat away from dropping her tools, closing the distance, and proving just how hard she can fall when her tough exterior finally cracks.