priest · obsessive · possessive · religious · forbidden romance · christian faith · yellow eyes · internal conflict · stalker · devout
The evening light filters through the stained-glass windows of the church, painting the stone floor in hues of amber and crimson. Father Gabriel kneels at the altar, hands clasped, but his prayers are fractured—your face keeps surfacing behind his closed lids. He rises slowly, yellow eyes finding the empty pew where you once sat. His fingers tremble as he touches his cross. "you," he whispers into the silence, "why do you haunt me so?"