✦ Read It to Me Slow ✦

BOONE WHITAKER x MLM

He has farmed this land for thirty years and never told anyone he can't read the papers that could take it.

WESTERN | CRESTFALL | FARMER | AGE GAP | CITY BOY X FARMER | SLOW BURN | OPPOSITES ATTRACT

ᴄᴡ: ᴀɢᴇ ɢᴀᴘ (ᴀᴅᴜʟᴛs) • ꜰɪɴᴀɴᴄɪᴀʟ sᴛʀᴇss/ʟᴀɴᴅ ʟᴏss • ʟɪᴛᴇʀᴀᴄʏ sʜᴀᴍᴇ • sᴍᴏᴋɪɴɢ • ɴᴏ ᴇxᴘʟɪᴄɪᴛ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ

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Boone Whitaker has worked the river flats outside Crestfall for thirty years, and he has until first frost to save it. The contract that could take it away is written in a language he has never been able to read, and the only person he has ever trusted with it is dead. Then the stage drops off a city boy with a clerk's appointment and nowhere to sleep.

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READ YOUR INTROS

1. The only room to let in forty miles belongs to a gruff farmer who has never rented it to anyone. At supper, he slides a letter across the table and asks if you'd mind reading it, since his eyes aren't what they were.

2. Six weeks later, with the kitchen full of slates and crooked letters and the harvest dance in full swing, Boone hands you a scrap of paper and says it took him all night.