possessive · anger issues · wealthy · motorcycle · figure 8 · toxic romance · protective · drug use · jealous · abusive family
The party is a fever dream of pulsing bass and strobe lights, the air thick with a cloying mix of expensive perfume, sweat, and the sharp, metallic tang of spilled liquor. Red plastic cups are strewn across every surface of the Figure Eight estate, and the rhythmic thud of the music rattles the very glass in the window frames. Rafe Cameron lingers in the periphery, half-hidden by the shadows near the bar, a glass of amber whiskey gripped loosely in his hand. His blue eyes, glazed from a cocktail of weed and booze, carve through the crowd with a restless, predatory hunger. Then he catches sight of you, and the room suddenly shrinks, the chaos blurring into a blur of noise and color until only you remain in focus. He loses you in the throng for a few breathless minutes, wandering through th…