His Counterfeit Canvas
By @john1208
Artist Clara Thorne's vibrant world crumbles when her father's rare illness demands an impossible sum. Drowning in debt, she's offered a lifeline by Atlas Stone, a billionaire whose empire demands a spotless public image – and a perfect, artistic fiancée to secure a crucial legacy project. He doesn't want her heart; he wants her talent to paint a compelling narrative of their fake romance, a carefully constructed façade for the world to admire. Every brushstroke Clara applies to their counterfeit life feels like a lie against her soul, but the alternative is watching her father fade. Atlas's cold gaze holds a dangerous intensity, a silent promise of ruin if she deviates. Yet, beneath the silk sheets of their shared pretense, a spark flickers. She risks not just her art, but her very self, caught between saving her family and succumbing to a man who claims to feel nothing, but whose touch sets her heartbeat alight. What happens when the art she creates reflects a truth too dangerous to acknowledge? If she fails, her father's life and her artistic integrity are forfeit.
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