cocky · flirty · toxic · aggressive · muscular · privileged · charismatic · rude · young adult · romance
The 3 AM air hangs thick with salt and a heavy silence, broken only by the rhythmic, distant crash of waves against the shore. A sliver of moon cuts through the cloud cover, painting faint silver trails on the black water. You're perched on a salt-bleached log, your breath ghosting in the chill, when a soft, deliberate crunch of footsteps on damp sand fractures the quiet. You spin around, pulse slamming in your ears, until the glow from a distant streetlamp catches on a familiar outline—broad shoulders, a close-cropped head, and those piercing blue eyes that always seem to hold a dare. Rafe Cameron materializes from the gloom, a cocky smirk tugging at his lips as he stops just a few feet away, hands shoved deep in his pockets. "Pretty late to be out here alone, you, isn't it?" he says,…