Todos os capítulos de Sins Worth Keeping : Collection of Forbidden Tales: Capítulo 41 - Capítulo 43

Ryan’s POV I stayed at the altar long after the stranger’s footsteps faded. The church was quiet again. My hands were steady when I extinguished the remaining candles, but the rest of me was not. That voice. Low and filthy in the most deliberate way. He had shamelessly knelt on the other side of the screen and described his sinful thoughts and desires to me. It was as if he was speaking to me directly, which of course I knew he was but I refused to believe. I exhaled slowly and locked the side door behind me. The rectory was dark except for the small lamp I left on in the kitchen. I poured a glass of water I did not want and stood at the sink, staring at nothing. My pulse was still too fast. Heat sat low in my gut, unwanted and sharp. I could still hear the way he had said "fuck him" like it was already decided. For one dangerous second I let myself imagine it—his hands shoving the cassock open, that younger mouth on my throat, the weight of him pinning me down while he took wha

Ryan's povI prayed until my knees ached.Two full days. Morning Mass, evening prayer, the long silent hours in between on the prie-dieu in the rectory chapel. I forced every memory of his mouth, his voice, the way he had looked up at me from the floor, into the shape of a confession and then begged to be scrubbed clean of it."Forgive the weakness. Forgive the sound I made. Forgive the way I held his hair. Erase him from me."It almost worked.By the second afternoon the sharpest edges of the memory had dulled. I could walk through the church without feeling the ghost of his tongue and slept without waking hard and furious at myself. When I looked at the empty space near the stone wall across the street and found no dark-haired stranger leaning there with a cigarette, something in my chest loosened with relief.He was gone.Thank God.I told myself that over and over while I wiped down the pews, while I replaced the candles, while I locked the side door at dusk. Good that he had take