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By The Hands

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Time 4h 45m

Reads 93
Votes 27
Parts 15
Time 4h 45m

Mature

Aiden Frezzel Bailey's story of art, longing, and the man who finally saw him.

Aiden Bailey's life looks perfect from the outside - celebrated artist, charming smile, the kind of man people can't stop orbiting. But behind the gallery lights and champagne openings, Aiden is drowning. Everyone wants a piece of him - his art, his attention, his body - but no one wants to stay once they realize how much he feels.

He loves too deeply. Too intensely.
And every time, it sends people running. Name-calling him. Slandering his reputation. All of it tore open a wound in his heart, even if from the outside he seems completely unaffected.

Even take all the slanders and name-calling and pride on it as a defense mechanism.

Until he meets Ben Schmidt, a journalist covering a high-profile art charity event - a farmboy-turned-writer who's seen enough of the world to stop believing in sincerity of higher-ranking people around him. The kind of man that won't even bat a glance at people like Aiden with anything more than bitterness.

Yet by the hands of the others. Their perspectives changed.All Rights Reserved

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