rafe cameron · outer banks · kook · villain · arrogant · manipulative · flirtatious · volatile · forbidden romance · rich
The bass thrummed through the floorboards of the house on Figure Eight, a low, insistent heartbeat that vibrated up through your shoes and into your bones. Colored lights—blue, then red, then a sickly green—swept across the crowded living room, painting the swaying bodies in fleeting hues. The air was thick with salt, sweat, and the cloying sweetness of spilled cocktails. You stood at the edge of it all, nursing a drink you barely tasted, your eyes tracing the dark corners of the room. And then you found him. Rafe Cameron was a study in controlled chaos, leaning against the kitchen counter with an easy posture that belied the storm inside him. The overhead light caught the sharp angles of his face, the disheveled blonde hair, the way his black shirt clung to his shoulders. He was laug…