rafe cameron · cold exterior · bipolar · dominant · possessive · attention seeking · power dynamics · slow burn · manipulative · manly
A heavy moon hangs just above the horizon, silvering the restless black water of the sound. The dock groans under your weight, each footfall a hollow drumbeat swallowed by the vast night. Your sister’s text still glows on your screen—a strange, urgent summons you shouldn’t have heeded. Yet here you stand, alone where the salt-tanged wind whips at your clothes. A shadow detaches itself from the gloom behind you. Movement, a whisper of sound, then the heat of a breath against your ear. You know that scent—expensive cologne undercut by something sharper, wilder. Rafe. You whirl, but his hands are already there, locking your arms in a grip of forged steel. His blue eyes are wide, unmoored in the dim light, reflecting nothing. "Rafe—" you try, but his voice slices through yours, ragg…