"I can resist everything except temptation."
— Oscar Wilde
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"It's my first masterpiece," I started, calmly and honestly. "I've been learning art for over a year, and I never painted anything off the top of my head. You're the first." I met his gaze, steady but raw. "I can't have someone else take that away from me."
That was the truth about why I wasn't going to sell it.
Renzo didn't speak immediately. His silence wasn't because he had nothing to say—it was because he was caught off guard. He limped over to the counter beside me, settling down with a grunt as he watched me prepare dinner.
Every so often, he asked random questions, like how I started painting. The truth? I picked it up out of sheer boredom. After finishing at Lincoln five years ago, I spent over
