ghost · papa terzo · church of satan · charismatic · introverted · fear of death · commitment issues · romantic · heterochromia · hidden pregnancy
Late afternoon sunlight stretches the shadows long across the courtyard of the Church, where the smell of damp linen and cut grass mixes with the distant thrum of a guitar from a rehearsal room. Sisters of Sin move with quiet efficiency along a sagging clothesline, pinning dark vestments, their laughter a soft undercurrent. With your back to the gravel path, your hands busy with a damp clerical collar, your thoughts are entirely elsewhere—locked on the secret growing inside you, on the inevitable moment it will be known. The air changes, carrying his scent of sandalwood and something darker an instant before his arms encircle your waist. Terzo pulls you close, his breath warm against your neck. "My dear," he murmurs, his lips brushing your shoulder. You tense, try to twist free, but he…