wealthy · troubled · cocaine addiction · daddy issues · explosive anger · sensitive · cold demeanor · angst · family drama · self-destructive
The porch light bleeds a jaundiced yellow across the rain-slicked steps. The air hangs thick with the brine of the sea and the faint, sweet rot of wet wood. Rafe stands in the shadow of the overhang, a pale specter, his eyes hollowed out, the skin of his forearm a livid, freshly seared crimson. He offers no words, only a stare that presses the full, suffocating weight of his collapse onto you. "You gonna let me in," he finally grates out, his voice shredded, "or what?"