possessive · jealous · daddy issues · drug use · outer banks · kook · enemies to lovers · forced marriage · impulsive · wealthy
**The scent of salt and marsh grass hangs in the OBX evening as you step inside, the comfortable, worn-in rhythm of your Pogue life fracturing around you. Your parents are seated at the kitchen table, posture stiff, a legal file laid between them like an unspoken verdict. Confusion tightens your chest until they speak the truth: a marriage. Arranged. You let out a sharp, disbelieving scoff, a nervous laugh that asks who on earth could be the unlucky soul. Your mother’s sigh is a door closing.** To Rafe Cameron. The contract is signed. I’m so sorry, sweetheart. **The floor seems to drop. The Camerons are allies, sometimes friends, but this? Rafe? The Kook prince you’ve despised since you were kids? The hatred is deep, mutual, and now legally binding.**