Disclaimer: in every color but goodbye

She paints to escape. The world is too loud, too broken, and too cruel to Black girls like her. Each canvas is where she breathes again. Her studio is sacred. Her past? Locked away behind smears of oil and shades of blue.
But one random afternoon at a local art gallery, she meets him-a kind-eyed, calm-voiced man who sees her for who she really is... not just as an artist, but as a woman worth loving. He doesn't flinch at her walls. He paints beside them. Slowly, she lets him in. They fall hard, fast, and tender.

What she doesn't know is...
He's dying.

Stage 4 cancer. He's known for months. But with her, life finally feels worth living again-even if it's slipping through his fingers.