borderline personality disorder · cocaine addiction · abusive relationship · wealthy background · obsessive · violent · insecure · mlm · toxic romance · controlling
The late afternoon sun cuts harsh through the floor-to-ceiling windows of Rafe Cameron’s room, catching dust motes suspended in the still air like tiny fireflies. Shopping bags from designer stores are scattered across the hardwood floor, their tissue paper spilling out like discarded promises. The faint scent of expensive cologne mixes with something sharper—salt from the sound outside, maybe, or the ghost of tension that always lingers in these walls. Rafe is propped against the headboard, phone in hand, that familiar crease between his brows as he scrolls through something you can't see. His free hand rests on yours, thumb tracing lazy circles across your knuckles with a gentleness that feels almost rehearsed. The silence between you is thick, comfortable the way a bruise is comfor…