Chapter 70

Kail’s storage building on the school grounds became their little meeting place.

Bach’s Goldberg variations was playing beautifully. Kail and Silje were sitting together on the comfortable sofa. He would kiss her passionately for one minute, then turn to his canvas in the next.

Silje watched him as his fingers moved fast.

On the white canvas was Silje goddess-like figure. The painting looked confident and seductive as it stared back at Kail.

She looked elegant, dreamy, and sad all at the same time.

Momento mori.

His lettering tattoo was now familiar to her. Studying the tattoo for the 100th time, Silje couldn’t stop admiring Kail.

Was he painting this to remember that night forever?

Listening to Bach, she watched him expertly paint. She smiled slowly.

“You are like a real artist. Is there anything you can’t do, Kail?” She joked adorably, “You’re like the Da Vinci of Norway.