Silas & Sister Mary (2)Mary's POV I told myself I would not return.All the next day I moved through my duties, chanting psalms, scrubbing floors, kneeling in silent prayer. But every time I closed my eyes, I felt Silas’s rough hand between my legs, the way my body had betrayed me so easily in the garden. The memory made my thighs clench and fresh wetness gather in my undergarments and by evening my resolve had crumbled into dust.After Compline, when the monastery fell quiet, I tiptoed out again. My heart hammered so loudly I was sure the entire convent could hear it. The chapel gardens were darker tonight, I waited on the same stone bench, my hands folded tightly in my lap, my habit buttoned to the throat.Silas appeared like a shadow, carrying no lantern this time. He simply stepped out from behind the rose hedge and looked at me with those dark, knowing eyes.“You came,” he said softly. There was no triumph in his voice but only quiet hunger.“I shouldn’t have,” I whispered, but
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