ambitious_and_cunning
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After a decade of marriage, Kiara has settled comfortably into Kook life with JJ by her side. After eight years of working his ass off for his father, Rafe is ready to take his place as rightful heir to Cameron Development.
So what if their lives look a little too much like the ones their parents always wanted for them? They’re content. Happy, even.
Until their carefully curated lives turn out to be just as false as the broken promises littered around them.
In the wake of two devastating betrayals, Rafe and Kiara decide that sometimes the high road is overrated. Bonded by their shared bitterness and desire for revenge, the pair get caught up in a lie that spirals out of control.
But as lines become blurred and fiction bleeds into reality, Kiara and Rafe have to decide how far they’re willing to go to get back at the people that have hurt them.
Sometimes people don’t realize they’re in too deep until the water is already closing over their heads.
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Kiara should have left.
But she didn’t.
And now Rafe Cameron was in her veins. Too close, too quiet, and too patient.
What began as tension unravels into obsession, control, and the slow erosion of every line Kiara thought she wouldn’t cross.
She hates him. He knows.
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Kiara never meant to fall into a summer-long situationship with her best friend’s hot, emotionally repressed, surprisingly soft himbo of a brother.
But sneaking around with Rafe Cameron gets complicated fast. Especially when a case of mistaken identity threatens to blow it all up!
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Sequel to High Tide
They made it out. Somehow.
It’s been almost two years since the withdrawal, and the night she almost didn’t wake up. Kiara is clean now. Healthy.She and Rafe live together at Tannyhill, and for the first time in his life, Rafe Cameron feels like he knows what it feels like to just breathe.
They’re in love and their world is quiet…almost too quiet.
Because when you’ve lived your life in chaos, peace starts to feel like a setup…When Kiara begins to pull away- Rafe feels it in his bones. And he knows how this kind of story usually goes. He’s been bracing himself to watch her fall apart again. Ready to catch her.
But nothing could’ve prepared him for the truth.
And suddenly, Rafe isn’t the one holding her together anymore. He’s the one unraveling with the weight of a future he never imagined, a past he’s never truly escaped, and the terrifying question of whether love can be enough to survive what comes next.
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- Part 2 of The Undertow Series
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A year after JJ’s brutal death Kiara Carrera is drowning-just not in the ocean she once loved. Grief has hollowed her out, leaving only a girl who numbs the pain with vodka, pills, and whatever else she can get her hands on. The Pogues have tried to reach her, but she’s already too far gone, too bitter at the way life keeps moving forward when JJ is frozen in time.
At a party she barely remembers walking into, she runs into Rafe Cameron, the last person she expects, the last person she wants to see. Once her enemy, now just another ghost walking through life, Rafe sees the same self-destruction in her that once lived in him. He’s been where she is, and whether he means to or not, he finds himself standing in the wreckage with her.
He wasn't supposed to make it out of his old life alive. She isn't sure she will make it out of her new life alive. But as they keep crossing paths in the late hours, tangled in her vices and their grief, and something shifts. Destruction is easier when you have company. And maybe, just maybe, they can drag each other out before it’s too late.
In a world where the tide always pulls them back under, can they find a way to rise above it together? Or will they sink for good?
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- Part 1 of The Undertow Series
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pretty little baby (i'm so in love with you) by DahliaParton for ambitious_and_cunning
Fandoms: Outer Banks (TV)
26 Jul 2025
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Kiara’s always been diligent about her birth control.
Ever since her own mother began showing her just how conditional maternal affection can be, she’s told herself she could never do the same. Could never become a parent when her own have taught her that the job isn’t for the weak – and sometimes, it’s not even for the strong.
And if people who have all the resources in the world – money, time, a functional marriage, and most importantly, the inclination to raise a human being – can fail so miserably, she certainly can’t allow herself to ever become pregnant with a child who isn’t wanted.
So she’s meticulous about it.
Enter Rafe Cameron in his would-be dad era.
aka: the baby trap fic
Bookmarked by ambitious_and_cunning
01 Aug 2025
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“What the hell are you talking about?” Sarah says, leaning forward. “Everyone thinks you’re together. You guys are delusional if you’re still calling each other just friends."
John B. was shaking his head slowly. “Didn’t – don’t you guys go on dates together all the time? Am I missing something?”
“No, the fuck we do not,” Rafe answered.
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The "didn't know they were dating" AU.
Bookmarked by ambitious_and_cunning
13 Jun 2025
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Something is happening to Rafe Cameron.
It starts with the gold: real, buried, and not just treasure. After that, the voices come. The rage deepens. Rafe is the blood-born vessel of an ancient Norse curse—a wolf spirit bound to his bloodline by a long-forgotten ancestor.
Kiara Carrera never believed in magic. But after one touch of the gold, her dreams twist into omens. Her skin burns with runes she doesn’t understand. As tensions rise and secrets surface, Kiara begins to unlock a power she didn’t know she carried. Light within dark. A legacy passed down through blood. And she’s not sure if she’s supposed to save Rafe… or destroy him.
Because the prophecy is clear:
The wolf must kill someone.
And love won’t change fate.But it might rewrite it.
Bookmarked by ambitious_and_cunning
04 Jun 2025
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"He wants her under him, raging, writhing, breaking apart piece by piece until her bones crumble like ash—
until she turns to dust in his hands the way Ward will be.
Rafe closes his eyes.
And imagines a fine speck of Kiara on his tongue."A canon-adjacent Rafe/Kiara slow spiral into obsession, ruin, and everything that’s left wounded. This story is written into the body—through thirst and heat, through bruises and flesh—where nothing heals, and every sense still remembers.
This is not a love story. This is Kiara Carrera getting a cut in the shape of Rafe Cameron, and the ensuing infection, the fever that won’t break, the open wound that never heals.
And she doesn’t want to get better.
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01 Jun 2025
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Rafe was obsessed.
He watched. Stalked. Waited.
He broke in. Left her gifts.
But Kiara wasn’t the girl he remembered.
And maybe that was why he couldn’t stop.Obsession doesn’t start with love.
It starts with betrayal.Bookmarked by ambitious_and_cunning
12 May 2025