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Chapter 51
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Sacred Obsession Chapter 52
Matteo's POV)The moment she said she didn't know how to lose me, something inside me stopped resisting entirely, because those battles still existed somewhere beneath the surface. But emotionally, I was losing structure faster than I could rebuild it. Because Elena wasn't speaking like someone caught in temptation anymore. She sounded afraid. And God help me, knowing she feared losing me affected me more deeply than it should have.My hands tightened instinctively at her waist as she stood against me near the altar, the dim church surrounding us in dangerous silence. "You shouldn't say things like that here," I whispered.Her eyes searched mine immediately. "Why?"Because hearing you say you need me inside a church feels blasphemous and sacred at the same time. Because every vow I've ever made starts sounding fragile when you look at me like this. Because I don't think I would survive watching you walk away now.*Instead I said quietly, "Because I don't trust myself when you do."The
Sacred Obsession Chapter 51
(Elena's POV)I could no longer sleep properly after my conversation with matteo; That kind of exhaustion that settles deep into your bones while your mind refuses to quiet down long enough for sleep to fully take hold. Every time I closed my eyes, the same thought came back.He could leave; Gone from Rome, gone from the parish, gone from my life entirely. And suddenly, everything around me felt fragile in a way it never had before, because until that moment, some reckless part of me had unconsciously believed this could go on indefinitely. Now I saw how naive that had been.The Church moved priests all the time. A signature, a meeting, a single administrative decision, that was all it would take to dismantle everything between us. What terrified me most was how deeply that realization cut. Far too deeply.Three days passed without seeing him alone. Three days of crowded Masses, careful distance, and restrained eye contact across rooms full of people who understood nothing. Each day
Sacred Obsession Chapter 50
(Matteo's POV)A scary rumor reached me out out of the blue not formally or through official channels. That was how things spread inside the Church, quietly first, passed between careful voices before anyone important acknowledged them openly. I heard it from Father Benedict near the parish courtyard while we prepared for morning Mass."You may be leaving us sooner than expected." The statement came too casually.I looked up from the liturgical books in my hands. "What do you mean?"Father Benedict shrugged lightly, adjusting the sleeve of his cassock. "There's discussion of transfers again."The world around me seemed to still for half a second internally. "Who told you that?""Nothing confirmed," he replied quickly. "Just conversations from the diocese."My pulse sharpened immediately anyway. Transfers. Again. The word alone carried an ugly familiarity, Paris, the aftermath, the quiet relocation disguised as administrative necessity. For one terrible moment I wondered if someone h
Sacred Obsession Chapter 49
Elena's POV)I was standing in front of my mirror pulling a dark sweater over bare skin while my pulse beat hard enough to make my hands slightly unsteady.The house was asleep, mostly. The long corridors of the estate had settled into silence hours ago, the kind that made every small sound feel amplified, even the soft click of my bedroom door closing behind me sounded dangerous. I paused briefly, listening. Nothing. Then I kept moving.Sneaking out in my big age should have felt ridiculous. Instead it felt intimate, not reckless in a dramatic way but reckless in a quiet one, the kind built from choice rather than impulse. Because this wasn't sudden anymore. Every step toward Matteo had become increasingly deliberate, and the terrifying part was that the more deliberate it became, the less guilty I felt about it. I pulled my coat tighter as I walked, the cool air brushing against my skin while anticipation settled low and warm inside me. Not nerves. Expectation. Because somewhere ov
Sacred Obsession Chapter 48
(Matteo's POV)I read her Elena’s messages too many times,, not because they were complicated, but because they weren't. That was the problem. Elena never hid behind uncertainty or diluted what she felt to make it easier to survive. And now, neither did I.I sat alone inside the rectory office long after midnight, my phone resting face-up beside scattered parish papers I hadn't actually read in nearly an hour. I leaned back slowly in the chair, pressing my thumb against my lower lip while exhaustion settled heavily into my body, not physical exhaustion, but something deeper. The exhaustion of resisting thoughts that no longer intended to leave. Because Elena wasn't passing through my mind anymore. She lived there now, effortlessly and permanently; and it scares meI should have ended this after Paris. That truth had become impossible to ignore, not because Claire had destroyed me, she hadn't. The relationship in Paris had never reached this level of emotional devastation, and that w
Sacred Obsession Chapter 47
(Elena's POV)I spent the entire day pretending I was still myself, and it was surprisingly easy. I answered my mother's questions over breakfast without hesitation, listened while she discussed an upcoming charity dinner with the detached attentiveness expected of me, nodded in the right places, when appropriate. Normal, convincing, carefully composed. No one noticed that only hours earlier, Father Matteo Romano had been in my bed. No one noticed that every part of me still felt altered by it. And somehow, that made everything feel even more unreal — because the world continued exactly as it always had while mine had shifted permanently overnight.I should have felt ashamed. That thought kept returning like something rehearsed, not because I genuinely felt it, but because I knew I was supposed to....A priest....The man who stood before the parish every Sunday speaking about devotion and sacrifice and restraint had touched me like none of those things existed between us anymore. And I
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