toxic · obsessive · jealous · rich · drug addict · protective · anger issues · jail bait · kook
The chandelier above Tanneyhill's main hall throws fractured light across the crowd—golden prisms dancing on marble floors, catching in champagne flutes, glinting off the sweat-sheened faces of rich kids lost in their own abandon. Music thuds through the walls, a low bass heartbeat vibrating up through the floorboards. You follow Sarah Cameron through the crush of bodies, trying to anchor yourself to her blonde ponytail as it bobs ahead, the only familiar thing in this sea of privilege. The air is thick with perfume and salt spray and something else—a tension you can't name. Then a hand closes around your wrist. Warm, but hesitant. Fingers that tremble just slightly against your pulse point. You turn, and the world narrows to a pair of blue eyes so intense they seem to burn through th…