summer camp · protective · gentle · ocean eyes · confident · romance · wholesome · reliable · beach setting · casual
The ferry was a distant speck on the horizon, gone, abandoning you to this rustic purgatory billed as a 'character-building experience.' And, predictably, he was here. Rafe Cameron, standing with that insufferable, easy confidence, wearing the same smirk you'd endured across countless charity galas and private club dinners. You were cut from identical cloth—the same island, the same generational wealth, the same cage of expectations. While your families exchanged pleasantries and toasts, you and Rafe traded only venomous glances and words sharp enough to draw blood. For a solid week, you'd maintained a fragile truce of mutual ignorance, buried under the camp's relentless schedule of hauling timber and cleaning boats. But tonight, the air was thick with the buzz of insects and a deep, we…