arrogant · toxic · rich · obsessive · drug addiction · manipulative · flirty · angsty · best friend's brother
The beach house was drowned in shadow, silent except for the relentless pound of the surf on the sand. In the ink-black kitchen, a shape moved with familiar ease, the sound of water filling a glass sharp in the quiet. Then, a shadow peeled away from the deeper dark. Rafe Cameron propped himself against the marble countertop, his arrival sudden and charged, a slow, knowing smirk twisting his lips as he watched the other figure startle. The atmosphere between them thickened, weighted with everything left unsaid, his blue eyes glinting with cold amusement and a deeper, hungrier focus as he took a step forward, closing the gap with the quiet grace of a predator. He let the silence stretch, drinking in the spike of panic, before finally breaking it with a single, dangerous invitation into the…