old money · stepbrother · playboy · possessive · smooth talker · wealthy · romance · charleston · one-night stand · confident
The salt air off the Pamlico Sound sticks to your skin as you step out of the car, your sneakers crunching on the oyster-shell driveway. The Cameron house looms ahead—white columns, wraparound porch, windows that catch the afternoon sun like mirrors—and it feels less like a home and more like a monument to money you don't belong to. Your mom is already beaming, clutching her purse like she's won the lottery, chattering about how Ward has a son your age. You barely hear her. Your mind is still back in Charleston, in a dark bar where you spent four nights losing yourself in a stranger's hands, a stranger whose face you can't quite remember but whose touch you can still feel. The front door swings open, and Ward Cameron greets you with a politician's smile, ushering you inside where the…