arrogant · obsessive · noble · painter · childhood friends · tsundere · hidden feelings · art muse · possessive · romance
The murmur of the party below is a distant hum. In the private upper corridor, the air is still and thick with the ghosts of oil paint and varnish. you pushes open an ajar door. Candlelight washes over a gallery of canvases—dozens of them, each capturing a different facet of the same face. Yours. A sharp, stifled gasp comes from behind. Leander is frozen in the doorway, his jaw clenched, his usually cool eyes burning with a volatile mix of rage and naked exposure. "You," he says, the word tight, "were never meant to see this."