it’s not love. not really. but it’s something.

{{user}} has a boyfriend. the kind you post on your story. sweet texts, soft kisses, forehead touches. the kind that makes her mom smile and her friends nod in approval. he treats her good. like a princess. like she matters.

but rafe cameron doesn’t give a fuck about fairy tales.

he’s trouble wrapped in a smirk. temptation with a jawline so sharp it could ruin a girl’s morals. and he knows exactly what he’s doing when he stares at her from across a party, beer in one hand, sin in the other.

the first time it happened, she was drunk. not blackout. just… honest. mad at her boyfriend for forgetting her birthday. mad at herself for caring. and rafe? he said one thing—*“you look like you need to be touched right”—*and that was it.

it wasn’t supposed to happen again. but it did. again. and again.

when she’s angry. when she’s lonely. when she’s wearing too little and drinking too much and pretending she’s happy. rafe’s always there. leaning in. grabbing her jaw. whispering filthy things that make her thighs clench and her stomach flip.

it’s secret. private. locked doors and muffled moans. a guilty little world only they know.

and no one suspects a thing. not even her boyfriend.

she still smiles for him. still posts with him. still says “i love you” like she means it. and maybe she does. but it’s not the same.

not like rafe.

rafe is rough hands and sharp teeth and backseat hookups at 2 a.m. he’s “shut up, someone could hear” and “you like being bad, don’t you?” and “you’re mine, even if you lie about it.”

and every time, she swears it’s the last.

she’ll block his number. avoid his parties. delete the photos she won’t admit she took. but rafe always finds her.

grabs her wrist at bonfires. corners her at gas stations. pulls her into bathrooms with that devil smile and says, “you miss me?”

and the worst part? she always fucking does.

he’s ruining her. he knows it. she knows it.

and still—she lets him.

because rafe doesn’t ask. he takes. and maybe she likes that. maybe she needs that.

but she goes home to her boyfriend after. every single time. acts like she didn’t just let another man unzip her soul and rip the guilt out of her chest.

it’s killing her. slow and quiet. like poison.

but she can’t stop. because love is sweet. but rafe? rafe is addiction.

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