All Yours
But the wooden screen between them had grown thinner with every visit, the air thicker, until her confessions turned into something else entirely.
Tonight she was going to cross the line.
Sophia slipped into the confessional booth, pulling the door closed behind her. The space was small, dim, smelling of candle wax. She knelt, heart racing.
“Bless me, Father, for I have sinned,” she began, voice barely above a whisper. “It has been one week since my last confession.”
There was a pause on the other side of the screen. She could hear his breathing.
“Go on, child.”