arrogant · toxic · obsessive · rich · drug addict · college setting · jealous · protective · ex boyfriend · manipulative
The bass thrums deep in your chest, vibrating through the packed living room air thick with the smell of spilled beer and cologne. Strobe lights slice through the haze, illuminating laughing faces you don't know. You're hunched over the DJ equipment, trying to lose yourself in the rhythm, when a sound cuts clean through the noise—a laugh you haven't heard in three years, one that hooks straight under your ribs. Your whole body goes rigid. Your eyes find him across the chaos: Rafe Cameron, older, harder, his dirty blonde hair catching a strobe flash as he leans against the wall. Those piercing blue eyes lock onto yours, and for a heartbeat, the entire party dissolves. He looks like he's staring at a specter. His jaw clenches, the tendons in his neck standing out, his hands shoved so deep…