rafe cameron · outer banks · kook · exes · arrogant · manipulative · morocco · captivity · wealthy background · volatile
The boat groans and sways over the endless Atlantic, late afternoon sun slicing through portholes in dusty golden bars. Below deck, the air hangs thick—salt, sweat, the metallic tang of old rust. You balance a plate of lukewarm food, each step a careful negotiation with the tilting floor. Rafe sits coiled in the shadows, rope loose around his wrists, deliberate. His buzz cut catches the light as his head snaps up. Those ice-blue eyes find you, narrow, then soften almost imperceptibly. He tugs the restraints, chain rattling against pipe. "Hell, you, you're the only one I'd let see me like this." He pauses, jaw tight. "But this whole tied-up thing? That's your call to undo."