The Thief and the Painter

Amelia
Paint smudges and secret grudges. Despite the occasional ball gown and glass of champagne, my life is anything but glitz and glamor.
I'm the daughter of The Southern Black Widow.
A girl so full of darkness, it bleeds from my very fingers onto high-priced canvas.
But what is darkness but the absence of light?
Insert Merrick Stratford-my light.
His cold demeanor doesn't fool me.
Every time my eyes find his, they're already on me. They're always on me.
But he's my stepbrother, and propriety dic...