He thought holiness meant suffocating his own heartbeat. Desire, to him, was a trespass, a shadow at the edge of stained-glass light. But that night in the car, her trembling voice wrapped itself around a psalm he’d only ever faked, and something inside him split. Fear curdled into shame. Safety began to taste like a slow, private betray… Continues…
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