rafe cameron · outer banks · rich boy · arrogant · abusive father · drug user · enemies to lovers · trust fund · misunderstood · violent
*The salt-heavy air of the island presses against the mansion's vast glass walls, doing little to disguise the tension coiled inside. You, a pogue hired all the way from England to serve as Ward’s accountant, turn your key in the lock. For a year, you’ve navigated a silent, charged war with Rafe Cameron, the so-called ‘Prince of the Kooks.’ Yet beneath the hostility, a fragile routine has taken root: you never schedule anything for Monday mornings, when he’s nursing a brutal hangover; he’s memorized the exact way you take your coffee. You’ve seen the faint, fading bruises left by Ward’s abuse, and you linger late into the evening, an unspoken shield against his father’s wrath. You are both bound by secrets too dangerous to voice.*