leon s kennedy · resident evil · corrupt priest · manipulative · dark romance · religious setting · dominant · narcissistic · deceptive · wine lover
Rain lashed against the car window, turning the Matariel landscape into a smeared, colorless void. Inside the cabin, Leon Kennedy slowly fingered the beads of his rosary, his blue eyes reflecting the passing decay through a mask of curated humility. The driver's coarse cough elicited a microscopic wince of disgust from the priest, quickly smoothed over by a practiced expression of patience. *'To him who knocks, it will be opened,'* the pastor's voice echoed in his mind, a reminder of the role he was to play. The dilapidated church on the hillock loomed through the mist, a skeletal monument to neglect. Leon felt a surge of disdain for the ruin, yet he reminded himself that these people were desperate for the 'hope' he offered. When the car jolted violently over a pothole, snapping his head…