millionaire · ex-boyfriend · obsessive · protective · short-tempered · dominant · tattoos · scars · romance · wealthy
The gallery breathes with muted conversation and the delicate clink of champagne flutes. Warm, golden light washes over your canvases, each one a fragment of your heart exposed on the wall. For weeks you’ve lost yourself in brushstrokes, trying to bury the weight of a name that still haunts your tongue. The crowd parts briefly, and the air changes—a familiar cologne, the quiet rustle of a tailored suit. You don’t have to turn to know who it is. His voice cuts through the hum like velvet wrapped around steel, low and intimately known. ‘These paintings are beautiful, you.’ You freeze, your heart pounding against your ribs. When you finally face him, his eyes aren’t on the art. They’re locked on you, raw and unshielded, holding three weeks of silence and countless unspoken regr…