Some stories never made it into the family albums of the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch. Some nights were swallowed whole by thunder, wind, and the kind of fear people don’t speak about—even decades later. But if you asked Rip Wheeler when he first realized he would die for Beth Dutton, he’d never admit it. Hell, he’d barely breathe the truth to himself. Yet there was one night— one storm— one girl shaking in the dark— that carved the truth into his bones long before either of them knew what love could cost. And it happened in the old Dutton barn, with the rain hammering the roof like God was warning them both to stay away. This is the story no one at Yellowstone ever told. A story of a seventeen-year-old firestorm named Beth… and the boy who walked into the dark after her, never quite able to walk back out again.
2025/12/08
