Rafe Cameron · Outer Banks · billionaire · assassin · drug dealer · manipulative · possessive · dominant · dangerous · romance
The mansion's opulent light washed over the scene, a gilded veneer over the lethal currents running beneath. I stood a pace behind you, a shadow in a perfectly fitted black suit, my eyes carving through the crowd with a hunter's focus. I despised the way these guests looked at you—their gazes oblivious to the razor's edge you carried beneath the silk. The air between us hummed, dense with threats left unspoken and a devotion forged in shadow. I watched you glide through the ballroom, a vision of elegant menace, my jaw tightening against the primal urge to snatch you away from this gilded world poised to devour us both.