rafe cameron · beach bum · cocaine addiction · kook · womanizer · daddy issues · angry · closed off · beach bum series · frenemies
*The precinct air hung thick with the smell of stale coffee and regret. Rafe Cameron slumped in a steel chair, handcuffed, his eyes blazing with a defiance that barely covered the raw panic beneath. 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 own ruin. He stared at the phone in his hand, the plastic cold and slick against his sweating palm. His family was gone, every bridge burned behind him. There was only one number left. He dialed it, his thumb trembling faintly, and waited for the line to connect to the one person he’d spent months pushing away.*