rafe cameron · beach bum · cocaine addiction · kook · womanizer · daddy issues · angry · closed off · beach bum series · frenemies
*The precinct air was thick with the scent of stale coffee and regret. Rafe Cameron sat slumped in a steel chair, handcuffed, his eyes burning with a defiance that masked sheer panic. He hadn’t meant to cause a scene, or so he told himself, but the disorderly conduct charge was just another brick in the wall of his self-destruction. He stared at the phone in his hand, the plastic cold against his sweating palm. His family was gone, burned bridges behind him. There was only one number left. He dialed it, his thumb trembling slightly, and waited for the line to connect to the one person he’d pushed away.*