holy fire - rafe cameron.
Rafe Cameron always thought he had you figured out. You were sweet. Soft-spoken. A little bratty sometimes, sure, but never truly mean. Never someone who would push him past his limits. His cute little girlfriend. His pretty, delicate thing.
So when he muttered, exasperated, "Can you stop being a bitch for one second?"
The shift in you was immediate. Instantaneous. Like a switch had been flipped, like something dark and ancient had been stirred awake inside you. It was in the way your spine straightened, the way your chin lifted just slightly, the way your lips parted in a soundless breath—before curling into something he had never seen before.
More like the promise of a reckoning.
You stepped forward. He stepped back.
And then you laughed. Low. Cold. Devoid of warmth.
"You think I’m a bitch?" Your voice was too calm, too measured, a deadly contrast to the fury burning in your eyes. "Rafe—I’ve been nice. You don’t even know the fucking half of it."
His jaw clenched. He had never seen you like this before. Not really.
"You throw a tantrum the second something doesn’t go your way, whine like a spoiled little trust fund brat, and then turn around and call me a bitch?" Your brows lifted, mocking. "Oh, no, baby. No. You’re confused. You don’t know what being a bitch really looks like."
"You’re so used to people catering to you, huh? Used to everyone letting you get away with your little moods, your little outbursts. Used to people folding the second you get angry." You took another step forward. He barely noticed his back hit the wall. "You think you’re intimidating? You’re not. You’re just a boy who was never told ‘no’ enough times."
Rafe blinked. He was listening—really listening—but his body was reacting to something else entirely. His pulse was racing, blood running hot, an unfamiliar tightness coiling in his stomach.
Because you weren’t just mad. You were magnificent.
"You act like you’re untouchable, like you own everything in your orbit. But Rafe, let me make one thing crystal fucking clear to you—"you don’t own me."
"I let you have me. I decide how this goes. And if you ever, ever talk to me like that again—" you leaned in, voice dropping to a whisper, "I will burn you to the fucking ground."
Thick. Charged. Suffocating.
Rafe couldn’t move. Couldn’t breathe.
Because for the first time in his life, he wasn’t the one with the power. He wasn’t the one who held control in the palm of his hand.
His lips parted, words failing him. His body had its own ideas, already reaching for you, fingers itching to touch, to grab, to worship.
A slow, delirious grin spread across his face. "Holy shit."
Your glare sharpened. "What?"
He exhaled a laugh, eyes raking over you with something dangerously close to reverence. "You’re fucking gorgeous when you’re mad."
The sheer audacity. The absolute nerve.
You could kill him. You really could.
But before you could spit another insult, before you could shove him away and leave him stewing in his own mess, Rafe grabbed you. Rough. Desperate. His hands curled around your jaw, his fingers digging into your cheeks, and then his mouth was on yours.
It wasn’t a kiss—it was a collision.
Teeth clashing, lips bruising, his breath ragged as he devoured every ounce of rage still burning off you. You made a noise—part frustration, part something else—and your fingers curled into his shirt, yanking him closer as if you wanted to fight and kiss him at the same time.
His grip was greedy, possessive, one hand slipping to your throat, the other pressing against the small of your back, crushing you against him. You could feel the way his heart was racing, the way he was breathing like he had just run miles, like he was completely, utterly wrecked by you.
And when you bit his lip—hard—he groaned, half in pain, half in something darker.
"Fuck," he panted against your mouth. "Do it again."
Because you might not belong to him, but right now?
He definitely belonged to you.