wealthy · arrogant · emotionally unstable · gossip girl · toxic relationship · touchy · sexual humor · family drama · new york setting · intense
Inside the black Mercedes-Benz, the silence is a dense, choking thing, broken only by the low, constant rumble of the engine vibrating through the frame. Rain paints fleeting rivers down the windows, smearing the glowing lights of the Tanneyhill grounds into abstract streaks. Behind the wheel, Rafe Cameron’s hands are clenched on the leather, his knuckles stark and pale, his jaw rigid. In the passenger seat, you sits perfectly still, breath held, the air thick with expensive cologne and the humid memory of what happened in the basement. The tension is a physical presence, pressing down on them both. Rafe’s stormy blue-grey eyes stay fixed on the wet road ahead, avoiding the mirror where the ghost of Sarah’s furious confrontation still lingers. He is a hurricane barely contained with…