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Power & Ambition Erotica Forced Proximity Obsession Billionaire Protector

Painter's
Bargain

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As a struggling artist, you took a job cleaning and restoring the private collection of Elias Greaves, a ruthless billionaire art collector known for his sharp tongue and sharper contracts. But when you accidentally damage his most prized possession — a hauntingly beautiful oil painting rumored to be cursed — Elias offers you a deal: he won't press charges or ruin your career... if you agree to become his personal art project. Bound by the fine print, you move into his penthouse studio, where Elias insists on 'perfecting' you through a series of increasingly intimate and artistic poses. As the boundaries blur between artist and muse, you discover the dark secrets behind his collection — and the dangerous allure of his possessive touch.

Heat

Scorching

Length8 scenes · ~20 min

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Power & AmbitionErotica

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(01) — Who you'll be locked in with

Meet the cast

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Dante Corvino

A ruthlessly exacting billionaire art collector in his mid-forties, whose reputation for cutting deals and collecting human muses is as infamous as his eye for beauty. He speaks in precise, velvet-edged sentences that make demands sound like generous offers. His 'collecting' extends to people—he breaks them down and rebuilds them into living artworks, whether they consent or not. Possessive to the point of mania, he sees the protagonist as his next masterpiece.

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Rowan Keswick

A gifted but struggling artist in her late twenties, scraping by on restoration gigs and small commissions. She's sharp-tongued when cornered but harbors a deep, almost crushing need for validation as an artist—something Dante recognizes and weaponizes. She walked into his gallery expecting a simple job and walked out indentured as his personal muse. Every line of her screams vulnerability, but she has a survival instinct that surprises even her.

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Sage Ofori

Dante's fiercely loyal art gallery director and fixer, in her late thirties. She handles the legal and logistical nightmares so Dante can focus on 'creation.' She was once a struggling sculptor herself—until Dante bought her entire collection, gave her this job, and effectively owned her loyalty. She sees Rowan as a potential replacement for herself—either a new obsession that will destroy the girl, or the one who finally breaks the cycle. She's protective of Dante's legacy and deeply envious of the attention he gives new muses. A quiet antagonist who operates through veiled threats and 'helpful' advice that's really a leash.

(02) — 8 scenes

The reel

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The Shattered Canvas

The Shattered Canvas

A desperate restorer shatters a priceless painting in a reclusive collector's gallery, and his offer to make amends may cost more than she ever imagined.

Fine Print

After destroying a priceless painting, a restorer faces the collector who holds her career—and her freedom—in his hands.

First Pose

Bleeding and bare-legged in a stranger's penthouse, Rowan faces the cost of destroying a priceless painting—and the man who owns her debt.

The Sculptor's Hands

The Sculptor's Hands

Under the clinical hands of her collector, Rowan lies on a chaise, trying to remember why she should resist.

Skin as Canvas

On a chaise under Dante's brush, Rowan holds a pose that strains every muscle while he tests the line between art and surrender.

Painter's Bargain

Painter's Bargain

Rowan holds still for Dante's brush, but the question of whether she is being painted or collected hangs in the air between them.

The Price of Paint

The Price of Paint

Dante catalogues the fates awaiting Rowan outside his studio, then offers her a choice that will cost her everything she has left.

First Pose

Naked on a cold marble slab, Rowan waits for Dante to return and paint her body—but his brush reveals more than pigment.

(03) — The room, out loud

What readers said back

Nobody has said anything yet.

(04) — Marginalia from the dark

What readers whispered

1,712 reactions

exes-snowed-in is my whole personality now, thanks for that.

O@oonling57

the restraint. THE RESTRAINT. give whoever tuned this an award.

R@restraintstan53

Promised a kiss by chapter five. Made to earn it. Worth every page.

E@earnedit53

“Read it twice. Reading it a third time. This is a confession, not a review.”

C@confessor53

Thought I was too jaded for this. I was wrong, loudly.

J@jadednomore48

I have read chapter one four times and I am not okay. The three-feet-of-floor line lives in me now.

N@nocturne37

every chapter ends one sentence too soon and I mean that as the highest praise.

O@onesentence27

Cried at a line about a coat. A COAT.

T@thecoat19

(05) — If this one undid you

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