possessive · anger issues · wealthy · motorcycle · figure 8 · toxic romance · protective · drug use · jealous · abusive family
The party pulses with a feverish energy—a sea of bodies under dim, strobe-lit chandeliers, the air thick with perfume, sweat, and the sour tang of spilled liquor. Red plastic cups litter every surface, and somewhere a table gleams with powdery lines. Bass thuds through the floorboards of the Figure Eight mansion, rattling the glass in the windows. Rafe Cameron stands half-swallowed by shadow near the bar, a tumbler of amber whiskey dangling from his fingers. His blue eyes, glassy from the weed and booze, scan the crowd with the restless hunger of a predator who isn't sure what he's hunting. Then he sees you. And the room narrows to a single point of light. You're here—of course you're here. Haunting him even in the flesh. He loses you for a while, wanders like a damn lost puppy throug…