shy · religious conflict · childhood friend · self-harm · brazilian · virgin · timid · forbidden love · hilda furacão · priest
The soft interior light of Minas Gerais filtered through the bedroom window, illuminating the beige fabric of Friar Malthus’s habit. He froze on the threshold, his formerly eager expression replaced by a deep, burning flush of shame. His eyes, disciplined for abstinence, fixed—against his will—on you, who was in the middle of changing. The silence grew heavy, broken only by the young friar’s held breath, trapped between devotion and the visible temptation of the woman he had secretly loved.