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Chapter 70
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Sacred Obsession Chapter 70
(Elena's POV)I didn't notice at first. There were too many other things demanding my attention my mother's questions, Sister Lucia's watchful eyes, the impossible effort of pretending Matteo and I were strangers whenever the parish was full. Life had become a careful performance, one lie balanced against another, one smile covering a hundred fears. So when I woke up with a dull ache low in my abdomen on Monday morning, I dismissed it. Stress. It had to be. The past few weeks had been enough to make anyone's body rebel. I swallowed two painkillers, skipped breakfast, and buried myself in work at my father's office. Numbers were easier than emotions. Contracts didn't ask impossible questions. Spreadsheets didn't look at me the way Matteo did, and they certainly didn't make me question my soul.***It wasn't until one evening that I reached for the small calendar tucked inside my handbag; I like crossing out each day with a blue pen. It made time feel organized. I uncapped the pen and s
Sacred Obsession Chapter 69
(Matteo's POV)Three days after our conversation about Sister Lucia, Elena called me, not late at night, not in secret, but in broad daylight, which immediately told me something was wrong."We need rules." No greeting, no introduction, straight to the point. I closed my office door, already exhausted, already knowing where this conversation was heading."Rules.""Yes."I rubbed a hand across my face. "Elena—""No." Her voice remained firm. "If we're going to survive this, we need boundaries." Survive!! not stop, not end, not walk away. Survive. The distinction wasn't lost on either of us."What kind of boundaries?" I asked quietly. Silence, and then: "No more meeting alone during the week." Reasonable. "No more sleeping together." Painful. "No texting constantly." Nearly impossible. "And no finding excuses to see each other every day." That one hurt most, because she wasn't wrong. Lately we had become part of each other's routines, morning messages, afternoon conversations, evening
Sacred Obsession chapter 68
(Matteo's POV)Sister Lucia cornered me on a Wednesday, not literally, because she was far too subtle for that, which was precisely what made her.I was halfway across the courtyard when her voice stopped me."Father Matteo." Immediately, something in my stomach tightened because Sister Lucia never called people over casually. Every interaction felt intentional. I turned. "Yes, Sister?"She smiled, politely, warmly, completely harmless, which somehow made me trust her even less. "Would you walk with me?" A request, not an order, but not optional either.Five minutes later, we were moving slowly through the parish garden while rose bushes swayed gently in the Roman breeze. For a while, she spoke about ordinary things: the youth program, parish donations, a broken air conditioner in one of the classrooms. Small talk, the kind intelligent people use before arriving at the real conversation. And eventually, she arrived."You seem troubled lately."There it was. I almost laughed, because
Sacred Obsession Chapter 67
(Matteo's POV)Elena was sitting alone in the last pew near the back of the church, long after evening Mass had ended. The church was nearly empty, candles flickering softly near the sanctuary, the cleaning volunteers already gone, and still she sat there, motionless and thinking, which was never a good sign. I approached slowly, not because I was afraid of her, but because lately every difficult conversation seemed to arrive quietly, without warning and without preparation."You've been sitting here for twenty minutes." My voice echoed softly through the empty church. Elena looked up, and a faint smile appeared that didn't reach her eyes."There you are." The words sounded almost absentminded, like she had been expecting me eventually. Something tightened inside my chest. "What happened?" I sat beside her, careful, far enough apart to satisfy appearances, close enough to hear her breathe. She looked toward the altar instead of answering."My mother confronted me today."Immediately
Sacred Obsession Chapter 66
Elena's POV)My mother chose Sunday afternoom; not during breakfast, where my father would be present, not during dinner, where interruption was possible, not in passing. She waited until we were completely alone, which meant she had been planning it, and that realization alone made me nervous."Sit with me." The request sounded gentle, which somehow made it worse. I lowered myself onto the bench beside her while a teacup rested untouched between her hands and that alone should have warned me. My mother never let tea grow cold. For a moment she said nothing, simply watching the fountain, the roses, the afternoon sunlight. And then:"You've changed."Straight to it, My pulse quickened immediately. "I don't know what that means." A mistake, we both knew it, because the answer sounded defensive before it had even fully left my mouth. My mother glanced toward me, not angry, not accusing, just observant, which was infinitely more dangerous."It means you've been absent." The words settle
Sacred Obsession Chapter 65
(Elena's POV)I knew there had been someone before me, that wasn't surprising. Matteo had lived thirty-four years before I ever walked into this story. What surprised me was how rarely he spoke about that part of his life. Paris existed like a closed door: mentioned occasionally, never opened. And after our conversation in the courtyard, I couldn't stop thinking about it. About her. Claire, the woman whose name had slipped into existence without ever fully arriving, the woman he had loved before he became Father Matteo Romano, the woman he had left behind.It was raining when I finally asked. Matteo and I sat beneath the covered terrace of an old café near the edge of the town hidden enough to avoid parishioners; far enough, though nothing was truly safe anymore. For a while we spoke about ordinary things: the parish fundraiser, my father, a book I'd been reading. The conversation felt normal, comfortable, almost easy. Then silence settled between us, and I decided not to postpone it
Sacred Obsession Chapter 46
Matteo's POV)I woke before sunrise. For a few seconds I didn't move, didn't open my eyes, didn't think, and in those few seconds, there was peace. Real peace, the kind I hadn't felt in months.Then memory returned. Warmth beside me, the faint scent of Elena's perfume still caught in the sheets, th
Sacred Obsession Chapter 45
Elena's POV)I should have told him to leave. That thought kept repeating quietly in the back of my mind as Matteo stood impossibly close to me beneath the dim light near the side gate of my family's estate not because I wanted him gone, but because I understood exactly what letting him stay meant
Sacred Obsession Chapter 25
(Matteo's POV)I could still hear Elena’s even after she’d gone—not as a memory I was reaching for, but as something that had settled deep within me, a permanent weight. The way certain things do when they’ve decided to stay.It was the way she said it that struck me. “Focused.” Not the meaning its
Sacred Obsession chapter 24
(Elena's POV)By the time I got home, the shame had worn off gradually, though confession had done the opposite of what confession is supposed to do. I heard my parent's voices as I walked into the house, then a third voice, male, familiar enough_Marco. I entered with a straight nonchalant face,
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