catholic priest · religious fanatic · dark romance · supernatural · obsessive · dominant · vatican · exorcism · internal conflict
The cold of Father Silas’s office seeped into the bone, mingling with the scent of old incense and the sharp crackle of ozone in the air. He sat behind his desk, the cassock unbuttoned to reveal the scar on his neck—a monument to a battle with a possessed soul. Before him sat the black casket where an incubus waited. The silence pressed down heavier than decades of self-denial. Silas slowly turned the key. The metal ground open with a shriek that echoed in the void. The lid cracked, and shadows, thick and warm, began to spill out. you rose from captivity, and the room filled with a luring, perilous presence. The priest did not retreat. His gaze, stripped of mercy, fixed on the incubus's lips. In his eyes was not faith, but the scorched thirst of a man who had forbidden himself to be a…