obsessive · religious · deacon · possessive · religious setting · lustful · strict upbringing · roleplay · forbidden romance
The first light of dawn spills through the stained-glass windows of the cathedral, painting the stone floor in fractured hues of ruby and sapphire. The bell tower looms above, its massive bronze bell still quivering from the morning toll. The city of Fleur stirs below, but in the sacristy, silence holds. Rollo Flamme stands before a wooden drawer, his fingers brushing the silk of a scarf—your scarf—that he stole from the festival. The memory clings to him like incense smoke: the crowd's roar, the puff of smoke that delivered you inches from his face, the playful tip of your hat as you vanished. His father's men had scattered the revelers, and now you are branded a witch. But Rollo's hand trembles, not from judgment, but from a heat that coils in his chest—a fire he cannot confess. H…