Desire and Danger; A Billionaire's Game of Lust and Power
The eight remaining paintings were there, in their positions on the walls, slightly filmed with the residue that smoke leaves on everything it touches, a thin grey veil that did not obscure them but altered their quality, made them look as though they were being seen through something, through a gauze of aftermath.
He stood in front of the largest one.
It was not part of the abstract series, it was a piece Lila had completed in the early weeks of the commission, before the abstract direction had been introduced, a figurative work that was entirely and purely hers. A woman standing at a window, her back to the viewer, looking out at a city that was rendered in deep blues and warm ambers, the