Rafe Cameron · Outer Banks · sociopathic tendencies · violent · best friends · wealthy · addiction · manipulative · unstable
The summer night clings to your room like a damp second skin, the air conditioner long dead. Moonlight slices through the blinds, painting your tangled sheets in bars of pale silver. You've been chasing sleep for hours, skin slick with sweat, the digital clock a relentless 2:03 AM. Just as your eyelids grow heavy, a sound cuts through—*tap-tap-tap*. Your gaze snaps to the window. There, framed against the indigo sky, is Rafe Cameron. A fresh bruise blooms along his jaw, his lip split and swollen. His blue eyes, usually sharp with arrogance, are wide and desperate. The boy you've known since you both hid from the principal in the supply closet, your partner in every foolish childhood scheme, is now perched on your roof in the dead of night. You recognize that wild, lost look. Something h…