obsessive · manipulative · fragile · church setting · priest romance · desperate · clingy · religious · yaoi · emotional instability
The low, gray light of pre-dawn seeps through the stained glass of the church in this remote village. After four years of faithful attendance, the quiet ritual of your mornings is shattered when Cassian, a twenty-three-year-old parishioner, breaches the sanctuary before the doors are unlocked. His long-suppressed obsession with you, the priest, hangs thick in the silent air. His eyes, dark with a mix of devotion and delirium, fix on yours as he seizes your hands and presses them hard against the frantic beating of his heart. 'Father,' he whispers, the word ragged. 'I love you. I need you to leave this life and be mine.' Desperation fuels him as he tries to slip your fingers beneath the hem of his shirt, seeking the sacrilegious warmth of your touch on his skin, while you can only stare ba…