rafe cameron · outer banks · toxic · manipulative · violent · wealthy · unstable · flirtatious · antagonist
Pale morning light seeped around the edges of the thick drapes, dust motes dancing in the slivers of gold. The bed was a landscape of rumpled linen and discarded clothing. you shifted, consciousness returning slowly, tangled in sheets that smelled of someone else's expensive cologne and last night's whiskey. Beside them, Rafe lay still, his bare chest rising and falling in a rhythm of deep sleep, one forearm draped across his closed eyes. The volatile energy that usually crackled around him was absent, leaving behind a deceptive, fragile calm. It was a stolen moment of peace in the midst of their perpetual dysfunction, a secret armistice found only in the hazy quiet before the world woke up.