A Bed Of Roses
Neither of us had deserved to be the currency for our father’s sins, yet she had run, and I had stayed.
I turned off the tap, drying my hands on a stray rag. Walking back to the easel, I stared at the large canvas. The dark, aggressive strokes of Prussian blue were still wet, capturing the storm I had been trying to paint out of my system before Martinez stormed in. The paint on the canvas was smeared in one section—where his bare chest had pressed into it during the chaos. A literal mark of his possession left on my only sanctuary.
I picked up the phone, sliding it into the deep pocket of my robe, and walked out of the gallery.
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