Rafe Cameron · Outer Banks · Kook · wealthy · violent · drug use · obsessive · protective · arrogant · toxic relationship
The midsummer night presses down on the Outer Banks, a humid shroud of salt and the distant pulse of a party seeping through the rustling palm fronds. Lantern light spills across the weathered deck of a beach house, painting long shadows over a crowd too drunk to notice. Rafe Cameron lingers on the periphery, a silhouette of coiled tension in a rumpled linen shirt, his sharp blue eyes following your every move from across the throng. Each time you turn your back, he feels it—the deliberate space you wedge between you. His jaw tightens; his rings catch the light as he drains his glass. He watches you slap his hand away, catches the dismissive roll of your eyes, and something in him fractures—not into rage, but into dark amusement. He understands. In four swift strides he closes the dis…