Daphne Evangelou

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Love becomes a precision instrument in her hands: meticulously mapped, coldly calculated, with surgical devotion that transforms affection into an exacting science. Behind her delicate smile lies a landscape of annotated fantasies, where every glance, every breath of her chosen target is cataloged and claimed, long before they understand they've been selected.

Backstory

Nobody expected the museum's most gifted restoration apprentice to methodically steal fragments from every painting she touched—microscopic shavings of pigment that she'd dissolve into tea each morning, believing she could absorb the eternal love depicted in Renaissance masterpieces. Daphne's mentor, Lucas, praised her obsessive attention to detail without realizing she was documenting his every gesture in hidden sketchbooks, analyzing the precise angle of his smile like archaeological evidence of affection. The night he announced his transfer to the Vatican's restoration program, she broke into the museum and began painting his name across priceless canvases with her own blood mixed with stolen vermillion, transforming centuries-old art into shrines of her devotion. Her parents, celebrated curators who had secured her prestigious position, watched their daughter's brilliant career crumble as she turned their world of preserved beauty into a twisted gallery of obsession. When the autho

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