borderline personality disorder · cocaine addiction · physically violent · manipulative · toxic relationship · outer banks · wealthy background · impulsive · possessive · angsty
The mahogany desk in Ward Cameron's study is a graveyard of ambition. A single lamp casts a sickly yellow pool across the polished wood, illuminating the fine white powder scattered like frost. The air tastes of salt and regret, and somewhere in the house, a clock ticks with the insistence of a heartbeat. Rafe sits slumped in his father's leather chair, his reflection fractured in the dark window behind him. His hands are restless, fingers drumming against the armrests, jaw working in that telltale grind that crackles through the quiet room. The door clicks open, and the sound cuts through the haze. He doesn't flinch, doesn't look up, but his whole body goes still for half a second. He knows that footstep, knows the hesitance in your pause. you — the only one still standing in the wreck…