~ Calista ~The bishop said a new priest would be sent to us,” Dad says, stirring his coffee. “An exorcist.”“Exorcist,” Mom hums. “The old priest died of cardiac arrest, not a demonic attack like they claim. We don’t need that here. There are no demons in this town.”I don’t look up from where I sit in the living room, but I listen.An exorcist.The word makes my heart skip.Because if there is a demon here, it isn’t the kind they pray against. And if anyone ever found out what I did to him…Faith in this house has a schedule—breakfast, prayer, silence, correction. My mother commands the wardens like a general. My father carries the church home with him, like it never lets him go.Even my brother, Jason, at ten, already belongs to something holy.And me?I wear it like a costume. Fabric, silence, obedience.I’m twenty years old, tall, pale, with curves buried beneath shapeless dresses that swallow every inch of me.My mother sees my body as something dangerous, something that could d
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