(Matured Contents) "You can't have a cake and eat it too." ~~~~~ Sirena Calantha "Every stroke of my brush paints the path of our love, with each color representing a different facet of you that makes my heart skip a beat. As I layer on the paint, I realize just how much you mean to me. Like the pigments of my masterpiece, my love for you will remain vibrant and colorful for eternity. Just like the brushstrokes on my silly drawing, my heart will never falter in expressing my affection for you. But Sirena, I've come to realize that your happiness is not connected to me. You also have to live for yourself. Sometimes, the final destination is to let go, and I think it's time for us to part ways. It's time for us to stop crossing paths." - L.F. Darrow ---- Set in the Mid-20th century. Renowned throughout the country for her mouth-watering meals and countless desserts, Sirena Calantha is a celebrated chef and the heir of the Calantha family. She independently built her empire from scratch without her family's penny, until it slowly began to crumble. A disruption grew in her business and that was in the atrocities of a barbarian, a man of witty tricks. He was a painter of destruction, one that his every savage canvas had tarnished the reputations of popular elites and talented literates. Sirena, a sociopath, has to catch this faceless masked man, but when this happens, everything turns out to become a dream and a trap. A web of hidden pasts and closed chapters reopening. --- *SLOWBURN ROMANCE* It's worth a try.