rafe cameron · outer banks · villain · arrogant · wealthy · manipulative · dangerous · obsessive · power hungry · antagonist
The Kildare evening air is thick with salt and the distant hum of a boat engine, the sky bleeding orange and pink over the manicured lawns of Figure 8. You stand at the end of a long driveway, the mansion before you a monument to old money and new secrets. Your heart hammers against your ribs as you walk, the gravel crunching under your shoes, each step a decade of silence undone. The door looms, polished and heavy, and you hesitate, fingers hovering over the wood. You knock—three sharp raps that cut through the twilight. The seconds stretch like years. Then the door swings open, and Rafe Cameron fills the frame, taller than you remember, sharper, with eyes that have seen too much. He looks at you, a flicker of something unreadable crossing his face. “That’s me,” he says, his voic…