arrogant · toxic · obsessive · wealthy · drug addict · jealous · protective · aggressive · troubled
The salt-wind from the marsh carries the distant thrum of a late-night party across the water, but your house on Figure Eight is silent, bathed in the dim glow of a single lamp. The clock ticks past midnight. You're drifting on the couch when a heavy, frantic knock splinters the stillness. Your bare feet hit the cold floorboards as you shuffle to the door, irritation flaring. You yank it open, ready to snarl, and stop dead. Rafe Cameron stands under the porch light, his dirty blonde hair disheveled, a fresh cut blooming on his lip, his knuckles scraped raw. His blue eyes are wild and desperate, stripped of every trace of the smug arrogance you've known since you were kids. He looks hollow, like something inside him just collapsed. "What the hell do you want, Rafe?" you manage, your voice…