The Pious Priest's Sinful Collection - Chapter 34 🔞
After a while, Theodore slowly moved his clenched jaw and spoke in a somber tone.
“Even if I continue to sin, Sister, do you truly believe the Father will still embrace me in His love?”
“Yes.”
It was an abrupt question, but Daphne answered without hesitation.
Even after entering the cloister, she had wandered — lost and uncertain. It was Bishop Isabella, then still a priest, who helped her find her footing. And it was the sisters of the cloister who reached out when she couldn’t yet find her place. Their love and devotion had been rooted in the teachings of the Holy Spirit. They said you grow to resemble what you love — so of course the Father they believed in was a being made of love.
“I am blessed with His light.”
Theodore Valentino shook his head as he continued speaking.
“And yet, in that light, I often see fig trees burning… and mold and insects swarming the offerings on the altar.”
Daphne could read the fear etched into his shadowed expression.
In the end, he had admitted it — he desired her, and yet he couldn’t cross the line he’d drawn himself, paralyzed by the fear of being forsaken by God.
“…Sigh.”
Daphne felt the anticipation that had been boiling inside her suddenly disappear.
Somehow, she didn’t believe he would give in even if she tempted him any further.
She could mxstxrbate in front of him, risking embarrassment, and get him erxct, but she couldn’t get him to take out his monstrous pxnxs.
He ejxcxlated on the spot where she would sit, as if to mark his territory, so she thought maybe this was the one time she could look forward to penetration.
‘A foolish hope, that’s all it was.’
With a sigh, Daphne drew back the leg that had trapped him and straightened her disheveled clothes. Even after all that, nothing had changed. It was time to do her duty and move on.
‘Clinging to someone who doesn’t want you and begging them to sleep with you — that’s beneath me.’
She rose from the chair and turned away, only to be halted by his voice.
“…Where are you going?”
“You don’t have to worry. I won’t trouble Your Eminence any further.”
She couldn’t bear to spend another day of work pretending it was half training, half caress — not after arriving late and humiliating herself like this. If she said she’d take the day to reflect, surely he’d accept it.
She moved the chair propped against the door, meaning to leave, but paused to bow her head in apology before stepping out.
“I’ll be going now…”
“You may not.”
With a desperate voice, a golden circle of light bound Daphne. Unable to move, her eyes widened. Theodore had bound her with holy power.
‘What’s going on? I can’t move. I can’t even make a sound!’
She had never known that holy power could be used like this. She had always thought it was a force for healing and purification.
‘Is this why he’s being talked about as the next Pope?
As a shadow fell over her head, Daphne realized that Theodore had come closer. She wanted to turn her head and see what expression he was making, but she couldn’t move, so there was no way to know.
What she could feel, however… was the intense heat coming from him as he drew near.
“I can’t let you go to anyone else.”
She also felt a heavy weight pressing down on her bxttxcks.
“I have endured until the end… Remember this, Daphne.”
He whispered as he gently adjusted her neatly tied hair, his fingers gripping the thin nape of her neck exposed above her priestly robes.
“This is all something you brought upon yourself.”
Thud.
Shrrrk…
The chestnut-colored hair slipped down, cascading loosely upon her shoulders.
