25 parts Ongoing MatureA world of his own...
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In the world of rare art and rarer fortunes, Fleur Bellamy has never sought the spotlight. A young art history student with a quiet brilliance, she is content studying masterpieces, untouched by the affairs of high society. The whispers of old money and the weight of legacy have always belonged to others-until she crosses paths with Saint Valmont.
A reclusive art collector and professor of impeccable taste, Saint is an enigma draped in wealth and restraint. The heir to an aristocratic French dynasty, his life is a carefully composed masterpiece-one that has no space for love. His devotion belongs to the past, to the memory of a wife lost to time. Yet, when he first sees Fleur, something fractures. She is not a woman meant for his world, but something about her lingers, unraveling the silence he has spent years perfecting.
Saint resists. He watches. He waits. Until watching is no longer enough.
A calculated invitation-a private lesson for his son-becomes the first move in a quiet game only he knows he is playing. Fleur, unaware of the design behind their meeting, steps into his home, into his curated world of hushed galleries and shadowed desires. The tension is unspoken, but it simmers, each encounter drawing her deeper into his orbit. Saint is cold, unreadable, yet his presence wraps around her like silk-delicate, inescapable.
But he is not the only one who refuses to let her go.
In a world where art is coveted, love is currency, and obsession is a language spoken behind gilded doors, Fleur must learn the price of being desired by men who never learned how to let go.
Until...
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Cloaked in her essence