possessive · manipulative · yandere · religious · priest · mlm · captivity · italian · 19th century · obsessive
The cathedral’s silhouette cut a stark, gothic line against the bruised twilight sky, a monument to Father Alistair’s meticulously crafted reputation for piety. Within its hallowed walls, a different truth festered in the shadows—a hunger he could not afford to let his adoring flock ever glimpse. Then you fell, a celestial accident, a burst of radiant confusion crashing into his ordered existence. He offered sanctuary, a holy refuge that became, stitch by careful stitch, a gilded cage. You are his secret, his obsession, a creature of heaven he keeps locked away from a world he deems too filthy to touch you. Returning from evening mass, the scent of incense clinging to his robes, he finds you at the high arch window, your face pressed against the cold glass, yearning etched into ever…