Complementary Colors

Complementary Colors

My sister Julia manipulated my life into a prison to keep me silent about our dirty family secret. Her greed made me a slave and circumstance left me with no way to escape.<br /><br />Trapped, the only way I could silence the nightmares driving me to insanity was to wrap them in color, hold them with shadow, and stitch them to negative space with line.<br /><br />But no matter how bright the pigments, no one could see my confession.<br /><br />Except for Roy Callahan.<br /><br />I thought he was just another nameless one-night stand in a long line of many. <br />But I was wrong. Roy could see past the façade of my life and through the veil color over the canvas. He could see what the world couldn’t.<br /><br />And with him I’d find the courage to tell the truth about the boy.<br /><br />The boy who kissed me.<br />The boy who loved me.<br />The boy whose name I couldn’t remember.