Painted Canvas

A book appears where it shouldn't.
A shadow moves like it has a purpose.
And somewhere between art and obsession, someone is watching-quietly, patiently-learning Rosalind's habits the way a painter learns a subject's face.
She tells herself it's stress. Grief. Imagination.
But the nights keep changing shape, the silence keeps leaving fingerprints, and the feeling won't go away: she's being curated.
Because to him, beauty isn't something you admire.
It's something you keep.
Painted Canvas is a dark, dual-POV story where devotion turns predatory and the line between comfort and captivity blurs-slowly, softly, until it's too late to tell which side you're standing on.
Content note: dark themes, stalking/obsession, violence, psychological trauma.