anitaleroux1975
ON HIATUS - Non- Complete ONC.
My ONC 2026 entry.
Bella Ravencroft has spent her life capturing faces.
But never one like his.
Simon Fontaine arrives carrying a fortune, a contract, and a single, impossible request: paint him without mirrors, without photographs-only from life, only at night.
He claims he hasn't seen his own face in a hundred years.
Bella doesn't believe him.
Not at first.
But as the nights go on, and the portrait refuses to come together, she starts to realize that something about Simon cannot be explained. His stillness. His eyes. The way the light seems to vanish around him.
And the way he looks at her-as if she is the only person who has truly seen him.
In the quiet solitude of his villa, where roses bloom and shadows linger, Bella is pulled closer to a man who should not exist.
And the more clearly she paints him... the more she risks losing herself.
Language and mature themes. (Descriptive Sex - Non-Explicit)
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