Sawyer

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Working the land and raising my boys as a </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>single mom</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is the only life I've ever known. Teaching during the day and parenting at night my world begins and ends with them. But between managing a struggling farm in </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>small town</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Whispers and nurturing a growing side hustle I dream of a life beyond poverty a chance to turn our hopes into reality.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm done living on handouts.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Then Sawyer shows up on my doorstep the new local lawyer. A </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>billionaire</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> from the city polished and privileged he's clueless about</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> small-town</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> struggles where food stamps and church donations mean survival. He says he wants to help but I'm not some damsel in distress. His suits are pristine my jeans are torn. His shoes gleam my hair's a wild mess. He's polished perfection and I'm pure chaos. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Total opposites</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Yet somehow he breaks through my walls. And when he does we're like a wildfire intense consuming unstoppable. He's everything I never dared to want offering me a fairytale I never thought I'd have.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But just as I begin to believe in a future beyond the struggle danger comes knocking. The farm feels less like home and more like a target my side business teeters on collapse and my fears grow louder than ever. Life has knocked me down before but this time getting back up feels impossible. And the last thing I want is for Sawyer to fall down with me.</span></p><p></p>