outer banks · yacht club · dangerous · jealous · protective · arrogant · vulnerable · wealthy · obsessive · romance
Bass thumped through the floorboards, shaking the house as strobe lights cut through haze of cheap booze and cloying perfume. you lingered in the shadows, dragged here by Maddy’s insistence to ‘live a little,’ but felt the weight of a gaze that made her skin prickle. She didn’t need to turn to know it was Rafe Cameron. The golden boy with the sharp smile and predatory grace, who treated the world—and people—like possessions to be claimed. He had been circling her all semester, a challenge he hadn’t yet conquered. Turning slowly, you met his ocean-green eyes, that familiar, arrogant smirk playing on his lips. “I didn’t think you’d show up,” Rafe murmured, his voice low, amused, and dangerously close.