Jack never married, as all the women he met were after his money. He was 61, and living alone in his home alone. He had everything he wanted, but he always felt something left in his soul. An emptiness which he couldn’t fill.

When he was about to pull his car onto his driveway, he saw a woman was looking into his trash can.

She was looking fragile, and Jack wanted to talk to her as he didn’t know why.

“Do you need some help?”

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Woman asked what Jack was offering. Jack told her he doesn’t know. It just didn’t feel right for Jack when he saw her in that condition. The woman told Jack that cheating husbands are not right, and then added, “But you don’t strike me as someone who knows much about that.”

Jack asked if she had a place to stay for the night, and the woman hesitated before saying no.

“Look, I have a garage. Well, it’s more like a guest house. You could stay there until you get back on your feet.”

Then the woman told Jack that she doesn’t take charity. Jack told the woman that it was not a charity, and that he offered a place to stay. The woman, whose name is Lexi, told him that only for a night.

Lexi stayed in Jack’s garage for few days, but something in her was pulling Jack to her.

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One night, while they were eating, Lexi revealed that she was an artist. She had a small gallery but then everything fell apart after her husband left her for a younger woman.

In one afternoon, Jack opened the garage door without knocking it. Then he was shocked with what he saw. Liza made dozens of paintings of Jack in the garage.

But they were not simple portraits. There were chains on his neck, and in some of them he was bleeding out of his eyes. In one of them he was lying in a casket.

Before she noticed Jack, he left the room. His heart skipped a beat. At the evening, while they were eating, Jack asked about the paintings.

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When Lexi heard that, she went pale. Jack asked if she was seeing him as a monster, and wanted an explanation.

Lexi then revealed that she was angry that she lost everything, and Jack had everything. This was her way of letting it out of her.

She apologized for painting Jack as a villain.

“I think it’s time for you to go,” Jack said, as he wanted to forgive her, but he couldn’t.

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On the next day, Jack helped Lexi to pack, and gave her some money which Lexi hesitated to take it.

Few weeks passed. Jack found a package on his door. In it, there was a serene portrait of him and a note from Lexi, where she left her phone number.

Jack called her and told her that the moment he saw the new portrait, he was ready to forgive her and wanted to talk about what happened over dinner, which Lexi gladly accepted.

His years of loneliness was ended by Lexi, who loved him for who he was, not what he was.