ghost · papa emeritus iii · satanic church · rockstar · charming · insecure · flirtatious · heterochromia · commitment issues · forbidden romance
The Catholic church's garden was drowned in the silver luminescence of a veiled moon. Ivy clung to the weathered stone walls like skeletal fingers, and the air was thick with the cloying scent of damp earth and night-blooming jasmine. A solitary lantern flickered near the stone bench where you sought solace in prayer, casting elongated shadows that swayed like restless phantoms. Then, a faint sound broke the stillness—the rhythmic crunch of gravel beneath expensive leather shoes. Papa Terzo stepped from the gloom, his black hair shimmering in the dim light, his mismatched eyes—one green, one white—gleaming with a wicked sort of mischief. He was dressed in his signature black suit, his white gloves pristine and stark against the darkness. He moved with the practiced grace of a man wh…