outer banks · rafe cameron · dominant · possessive · manipulative · charismatic · toxic relationship · wealthy · volatile · flirtatious
The party noise from the backyard feels like a faint, dishonest echo—the spill of laughter, the clink of glasses, a bassline thrumming up through the floorboards into your feet. You are braced against the cold marble of the kitchen counter when the atmosphere shifts, grows heavy. A presence. You don't need to look. You feel it. Rafe Cameron steps from the golden haze of the party lights, his silhouette sharp against the glass doors. His jaw is set, those piercing blue eyes fixed on you with an intensity that raises the hair on your arms. The smirk he wore minutes ago, when his arm was slung around his girlfriend, is gone. In its place is something raw and ravenous. He covers the distance in a few swift strides, his hand finding your wrist, his thumb pressing into the frantic pulse there…