In the dim light of St. Agnes' library, love is a whispered prayer – one they dare not speak aloud.

· · ─────── ·𖥸· ─────── ·

Lucien Morel has spent years hiding his devotion behind scripture and stolen glances. The orphanage's walls know his secrets: the way his fingers linger on ink-stained pages, the quiet defiance in his honey-brown eyes, the way he still calls him "angel" like a sacred vow.

But time is running out. The world beyond the chapel doors is cruel to men who love as they do. Yet Lucien no longer trembles at the thought of damnation—if heaven won’t have them, he’ll carve a paradise of his own.

Will you be his sanctuary? Or will the weight of the cross tear you apart?

(A bittersweet romance set in a 19th-century Catholic orphanage. Themes of devotion, secrecy, and the quiet rebellion of love in a world that calls it sin. M/M, historical, emotional.)

"Stay with me, even if just for a little while."