Greed And Gluttony Novels & Stories

I lied. Lately I've been eaten a lot more than usual to counteract the stress I've had for the past few days. "Adam, I am a doctor. I can tell what's going on with you. You're looked stressed out because you've been suffering from excessive longing, now you've resulted to comfort foods. You've even stopped shaving and now you're growing a stubble. You're a wreck." "What's been happening to you Adam?" Hendrix asked. "He's whipped." Mason answered for me. Hendrix and Fred looked at me astonishingly.

Levi raised an eyebrow, "If they felt guilty, they would have stopped." Listening to Levi's answer, Bella chuckled softly, shaking her head. “You are wrong, although I am not a psychologist, I think the two of them at some moment or moment really felt guilty and sorry towards me. But they cannot overcome the exciting temptation of adultery.” “The temptation of adultery?” Levi softly repeated her words.

My body ached, throbbing with denial, but my chest was heavier than any hunger. Shame. Guilt. Fear. What the hell was I thinking?

She felt drained over the exhausting work. She had been spoiled and pampered from a young age. Everything had been spoon-fed to her. She had never done such laborious work before. As time went on, her resentment only intensified. Emerald struggled to swallow while Amelia fed her one day. As a result, she spilled food all over Amelia’s clothes. Amelia could no longer contain herself. She smashed the plate and shouted in anger.

But next to his reflection, he saw the shadow of Angeline. She was the "weakness" he hadn't seen coming. She was the "motivation" that was already starting to rewrite his priorities. He realized then that the "Sinful Virtues" weren't just the rules they lived by. They were the traits that would either bind them together or destroy both their empires. Angeline wasn't just his wife; she was a mirror held up to his own soul. And for the first time, Roman Moretti didn't like what he saw.

The breath that I was holding inside came out of my mouth like the leaking gas of a balloon. I was slightly taken aback but tried to look normal as I felt he was staring at me. He tried to prove himself innocent this time, didn't he? Of course, he planned it. He is already so lucky, the breadwinner but I think he wants more. People are just greedy animals. When he gets a seat to sit, he wants a bed to lay down. Greed is all about acquiring things. Acquiring money, acquiring power, acquiring attention, acquiring time and so on. The running mantra is "I want. I want. I want."

I'm fed up of your skin crawling eyes looking down at me like I'm some meat you want to feed on being a hungry vulture! 'Alright then listen my gutsy kitten, because I want to hurt you to the point that you no longer recognise yourself, I want to marr you both physically and mentally and I like seeing you writhing in pain. It's a pleasant sight to behold.' 'These glistening tears make you look even more tempting than I want to admit. It's my newly discovered sick pleasure to see you like this, broken and gloomy. And about your alluring body, you think you can trade your body for the liberation of a culprit? Well I'm not that fool sweetheart. That's why I married you butthead so that no one c

Even more, when the mention of the pearl of Luriem was drawn in one of the paintings. "However, as always, the greed and thirst for power can take the mind of any being... that is our greatest temptation, Emma," he sighed as if he was remembering, "and also, it is our biggest sin. The consequences of being greedy, of being jealous and wish for something that it is not ours, can make us choose two things, to snatch it with the wrong methods or to work hard to get it fairly. However, who determines what is wrong, what is fair. No one can, only the heart and the time."

The two of us nodded like we had just cracked a code to a secret message. “His greed was the beginning of his downfall. He was going to die either way. Those people he signed deals with… they were going to turn their backs on him and stab him in the back when he least expected it. Because his attention would have been on something else. You see, one thing about greed is that you are never satisfied. You see this and you think it will fulfill you. But then you find out that you keep getting hungry. More desperate. That’s why greed is one of the deadliest sins.” Her words were smooth. “I would have loved to grow old beside him, watch him be the great man I knew he was. But alas…” She shook her

I spread my legs, standing tall and locked eyes with the Devil, then I pushed into his mind. It was a nightmare. No, it was beyond the worst, horrific nightmare I could have ever conjured up. Bodies writhed before my eyes, their mouths opened in silent screams as they suffered eternal hell, their sins displayed on their bodies. Gluttony, the man was huge, rolls of fat making it impossible for him to move, he struggled to breathe, his body slick with sweat from the heat of the flames. Sloth, another man, his eyes struggling to stay open, draped in dirty clothes, dirty bedding, the floor around him piled with rotting rubbish, he was drowning in split bin bags, rubbish building up around him.