To Hold: The Sinner's Confession

You are safe here, Sienna. But you are never leaving.

THE SINNER I ran from a cult to find freedom. Instead, I found him. Father Silas. The Warden in a cassock. He tells me the world wants to eat me alive. He tells me he's the only thing standing between me and the dark. He washes me. He feeds me. He chains me to his bed for my own protection. I should hate him. I should run. But when the lights go out in the rectory, I don't pray for rescue. I pray for him to touch me again.

THE SAINT She thinks it was an accident that she fell on my doorstep. She is wrong. I watched her. I waited for her. And when she finally broke, I was there to catch the pieces. She thinks I'm her savior. She doesn't know I'm the one writing the threat letters. I will burn the world down to keep her. I will break every vow I ever took. She is my penance. She is my prize.

Tropes:

• Priest/Parishioner

• Captivity / Stockholm Syndrome

• Touch Her and Die

• Gaslighting

• Gothic Horror Settings