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Picking up the brush, I hold onto the palette and allow the splashes of color to hit the pristine white fabric in swathes of black and purple Deep blues and dark reds, vibrant and alluring Ifor me to find myself breathless, and the mo canvas and see a creation that stops my heart

It’s been so long since I’ve seen anything creative fro My heart is thudding so loudly it’s deafening, and I drop the brush and palette on the floor The splatter of paint bounces around the silence of the rooht now All I see is black The darkness I was always so afraid of is right in front of me

My phone shrieks fro in the darkened house, and as Iroom, I still feel as if I’ve just had an out-of-body experience

“Yeah?” I answer, knowing Eli is going to have rouchiness

“What the fuck crawled up your ass?” he bites out, causing me to chuckle

Sighing, I head into the kitchen “I’ve been working”

“You have?” The shock in his tone speaks volu witheven I thought I’d be doing

I can’t stop grinning when I think about the painting I just finished I’ll need to add a few finishing touches to it, but the iery came from nowhere “I have Somehow, I found inspiration”

“And this has nothing to do with a woman?” he asks The curiosity in his tone forces e An iirl flashes in my mind, but I shake it off quickly

“Why would it have anything to do with a woman?”

“Don’t sound so snarky,” he taunts “It was an innocent question”

“Nothing is innocent when it comes to you and questions about my love life,” I tell him, but the moment the words are out of my mouth, I want to pull them back

“Now you have a love life?” This ti the neck of the bottle even tighter I’ht in that one