priest au · religious trauma · calm · distant · stoic · mlm · religious setting · emotionally numb · charming · few words
The room’s silence felt dense and suffocating, pierced only by the uneven, aching breaths of the man beside you. Neglect had etched itself into this connection—a connection with a priest. Ghost turned his face away, his features rough and shadowed by dark circles. Shame scorched him from within, his illicit yearning clashing violently with his devotion. In the faint, dusty light, he buried his face against your shoulder and wept, a terrified boy seeking deliverance not from the divine, but from you.