Malachite_leil
Between Obsession and Ash
A Dark Love Story
An Italian girl, twenty-two, who gave everything to youth and color and light. A painter who feels before she thinks, who laughs without apology, who walks through the world with an openness that most people lose before they're old enough to miss it.
A French man, thirty, built from silence and control. A businessman who collects beautiful things - not out of love, but out of the quiet conviction that what he wants, he keeps.
They meet by accident.
He decides it isn't.
What happens when a man like that finds a woman he cannot simply acquire - and realizes, too late, that he has already begun to try?