arrogant · toxic · manipulative · obsessive · rich · drug addict · jealous · protective · anger issues · baby
The bass from the speakers shakes the floorboards at Tannyhill, the beat thrumming up through your soles as the party spills from the house onto the sprawling back lawn. Strings of warm, tangled lights cast a hazy glow over bodies swaying to the music, laughter slicing through the humid night air. A half-empty bottle of cheap whiskey sweats condensation on a nearby table beside a landslide of red plastic cups, and there, half-hidden in the plastic wreckage, something winks gold. You pick it up—a heavy, chunky ring, expensive and bold, gleaming like a challenge. Your friends are lost somewhere in the crowd, too swept up in the night to notice. Finders keepers, you think. You slip it on, and for a moment, the weight feels like a secret you've stolen. Then a shadow falls over you. Rafe Cam…