Devotion Prayer Book Novels & Stories

And that night, for the first time, I cast aside all my small, fragile pride and knelt down, clutching Leo’s clothes as I cried desperately. “Please give me a child! That is my last shred of dignity. I swear I will live silently for the rest of my life as if I were dead. If you want, I can disappear from your world. Just please give me a child…”

He was willing to throw us all away for one woman. Rage and despair twisted in my chest. I screamed, "Elliot Quinn, are you even human? Are you really going to wait until we're dead before you believe me and Sophie? Did you forget what you've seen with your own eyes?" He had been reborn, same as me. So why wouldn't he believe us? He sneered. "You just want Dad to hand the company over to you, right? But you'll get married someday. What's the point of giving you everything?

"Please, God, don't let her die. I can't lose her. Not now.” He doesn't like to pray; he knows that many have died at his hands, but now he just wants to give everything to God just to save Amethyst. He is willing to give up everything for a miracle. "Please save her."

"And I know you're in a difficult situation. So I'm willing to make you a deal." He leaned forward, his eyes glinting with a calculating light. "What do you want, Delilah? How much do you want? I'll give you anything you need for your pregnancy, for your future. Just in exchange for your silence about what you witnessed tonight." I felt a wave of fury wash over me at his words. How dare he try to buy me off? How dare he think that I could be bribed into silence? "Where is Betty?" I demanded, my voice shaking with anger.

Henry's POV --- "Everyone Quiet!" Miss Dorothy shouted at the students and the room instantly became quiet. "This is your new classmate, I know how you all think, don't try to do any funny business on my watch." She said strictly, and moved to the side to give me space to introduce myself. 'What should I tell them?' "Hello, I--I'm Henry Cooper, 18 years old. And I love reading books." I weakly said, still embarrassed about the situation earlier.

She bit her lip, smiling devilishly as she got a naughty plan in mind. She put the book on the sofa and moved closer to him. “What book are you reading?” she asked, their faces very close. She held back her laughter as she looked at the book in his hand. He was reading a meditation book on how to calm the mind in 5 minutes. He tried to smile at her and avoided her eyes with his reddened cheeks. She then rested her head on his chest with her arms wrapped around his waist. She smiled devilishly when she heard his heart thudding.

he says with a plea in his voice, “push me away,” “No” I breathe out. He did not move nor did I. The silence between us was louder than anything we had ever said,my heart wasn't aching…it was breaking. In one swift movement, his lips crashed on mine, stars engulfed into my vision. I stand on my toes, caressing his hair and gripping it for my dear life, he tasted like sin, like temptation and the end of me.

“Be gone, Satan, inventor and master of all deceit, enemy of man's salvation. “Give place to Christ in Whom you have found none of your works; give place to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church acquired by Christ at the price of His Blood. “Stoop beneath the all-powerful Hand of God; tremble and flee when we invoke the Holy and terrible Name of Jesus, this Name which causes hell to tremble, this Name to which the Virtues, Powers and Dominations of heaven are humbly submissive, this Name which the Cherubim and Seraphim praise unceasingly repeating: Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord, the God of Hosts.” Fr. Benjamin was able to recite all the prayers and in the process, regained control over

Between his touch or his sexy groans on my ears. My eyes drifted to the books and see something. It was like a magnifying moment and I pushed him away. Even with a pure bliss of emotion, with his hands all over my body and his kisses that almost make me crazy, I’ve pushed him away for I saw something. “ D-Devon,” Alpha Antonio growls, watching me annoyed for stopping. I’ve picked up the book and encircled the phrase. “ Only a god can see the abode of truth. The abode of others for nature prevents the mixture of life above the earth.”

Clutching the worn leather-bound book of religious texts and ancient prayers, she opened it to the page where she had left off the day before, and resumed praying. "Grant, O Great Ukrae, the restoration of health, and healing hands, both to body and soul," she read, tending to the flickering flames in the stone fireplace with her free hand. "Almighty and powerful Ukrae, who heals all and saves all, may thine blessings restore strength and life." She lost herself in the sacred texts, time drifting away unnoticed as always. It wasn’t until Madam Livia entered to administer his night medicines that she stirred, gently closing the prayer book and rising to join her.