Sacred Obsession
The first few days, I had convinced myself that distance was helping, that every quiet sunset, every long walk between the vines, every dinner with my parents was untangling whatever had twisted itself around my thoughts.
But distance was not mercy, It was magnification.
Without Rome, without the church, without the accidental intimacy of shared spaces and stolen glances, all that remained was truth, and truth, I was learning, could be far crueler than temptation.
Because temptation implies choice. This no longer felt like one.
I was in love with a man I could never have.
The certainty of it should have shattered me. Instead, it sat quietly in my chest like something heavy and inevitable, as
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