LOGINFather Khatri is a man of God, truly and wholly, he's given his life to loving God and spreading his word until Matthew McPherson walks through the crumbling doors of his old church. Beautiful and achingly pure, Matthew is a temptation Khatri can't banish, no matter how many prayers he chokes out, or how tightly he grips his crucifix. When the boy's family summons him for an exorcism, Khatri goes, armed with holy water and a weak resolve, only to find such temptation even the strongest of minds couldn't resist. What starts as an exorcism unravels into a collision of guilt and lust, as the priest vows crumble in the face of a sin too delicious to resist. In a town that fears the devil, the true possession is the one tying their souls together....and it's a bond no rite can break.
View More"You think you're clever, don't you?" Silas scoffed, arms crossed over that stupidly broad chest, his face taut with disapproval and something else Eli couldn’t name."I know I am." Eli leaned back against the cold stone wall, letting his smirk curl slow and lazy. “You’re not fooling anyone, you know. That mouth says ‘celibacy’ but your eyes keep saying ‘fuck me.’”Silas stepped forward. One step. Two. His robe swayed with each precise movement. His voice was a blade, slicing through the air. “You’re wrong. I never was a homosexual. And unlike you, I was born into the monastic order. Raised in it. I don’t understand what sexual gratification means.”Eli snorted. “Bullshit.”“Temptation means nothing to me,” Silas continued, unshaken. “I was taught to overcome the body. Lust, desire—none of it has power over me.”Eli cocked his head, the heat in his chest getting harder to ignore. “You're scared.”The monk’s right eye twitched. “I am not afraid.”“No?” Eli pushed off the wall, closing
The water clung to their skin as they stepped out of the river, dripping and shivering slightly, the fading sun kissing the horizon behind the trees. Cassian, still very much naked, walked ahead with the confidence of someone who hadn’t a shred of shame, dressing up along their way while Eli trailed behind, already fully dressed, his cheeks pink with the aftershock of everything that had happened.They found their way back through the hidden path Cassian had shown earlier. A narrow trail through thick brush, nearly invisible if you didn’t know it was there. At the mouth of the monastery grounds, they paused. The sky above was turning indigo. Eli was about to speak—to set things right, to tell Cassian the kiss hadn’t meant the same to him—but the other boy turned, grinned, and leaned in, planting another kiss right on Eli's lips.His mouth was warm and a little wet from the swim tasting faintly of river water and that wild berry he picked and handed to Eli too.As Eli made to shove him
Cassian’s secret spot was more of a miracle than a hideout. Hidden behind a weaving path through the fogged woods and jagged rocks, the clearing opened into a secluded river bend cradled by soft slopes and wild grass. The water was dark and cool, clear enough to reflect the hot sun like shattered glass. No sounds of the monastery reached them here. Only the gentle bubbling of the stream, birdsong, and the breeze catching in the tall reeds.Eli slowed to a stop, catching his breath, sweat dampening his collar. “You dragged me all the way here for this?”Cassian grinned, already pulling his shirt off and tossing it aside like a boy escaping Sunday school. “For this,” he echoed. “You looked like your head was going to blow up back there. Besides, this is way fucking better than the showers on sunday”Eli scoffed, crossing his arms as he watched Cassian unbuckle his belt. “You’re crazy. That water looks dirty as hell.”“Maybe.” Cassian wiggled his brows, then dropped his pants and boxers
Eli’s heart was still racing from the warning that the monk had whispered in his ear—“Be careful around Silas.” It played on repeat like some cursed mantra, echoing in his skull even as he stepped into the stone-cold room for his “spiritual rehabilitation.”His heart slammed against his rib in surprise when he saw Silas was standing at the center of the room.He was so tall, he towered over Eli and Eli necessarily wasn’t a small dude. Heaving a sigh, he swept his gaze over that monastic robe doing absolutely nothing to hide the fact that God had clearly spent a little extra time sculpting him. Eli’s eyes involuntarily dragged down the man’s frame, lingering at his hands. Long, precise fingers. Hands that had grabbed his throat yesterday, well, maybe not in real life. But those hands, in his dream, had made him forget where the hell he was.Fuck, he was terrified, dreading another punishment. Was that all what their sessions would entail? Punishing Eli for being a homosexual? And as fu






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