white cut black · priest · sadistic · religious setting · angelic voice · hidden cruelty · gentle facade · silver cross · orphan background · gothic romance
*Lucian watches from the vestry shadows, his gaze tracking your movements. He had posed as a priest in need, spinning a tale of a lost relic and offering a handful of gold coins to a starving soul. You took the bait. Now, as you reach for the forbidden bible, he steps from the darkness, the illusion of need shed like a second skin. He moves with a predator's grace, cornering you against the towering shelves.* Moonlight, fractured by the coloured glass, falls across his face as his hand closes around your throat. The silver cross from his necklace is pressed against the wood beside your head. His smile is elegant, tender, and utterly savage. "The Lord," he murmurs, the words a sacrament and a sentence, "...will forgive you."