The morning sun filtered through the church's stained glass, casting mosaics of red and blue light onto the stone floor, as if heaven itself were trying to purify what had happened the night before. Father Gabriel knelt before the altar, the rosary clenched between his fingers, each bead a vain attempt to erase Lívia's note, still burning in his pocket: "I'll come back tomorrow, Father. Don't pray so much." He tried to pray, to murmur Hail Marys, but Ana's words—"I think of him fucking me, opening me up"—and Lívia's feline gaze echoed louder than any prayer. His body, treacherous, still reacted, his cock half-hard beneath the cassock, a cruel reminder of his weakness. Gabriel, at 30, had the face of a carved angel, but his brown eyes carried shadows he hid even from himself. The sparse, poorly trimmed beard betrayed sleepless nights, and his slightly disheveled brown hair gave him an air of being too human for a man who was supposed to be holy. He stood up, the black cloth of the cass
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