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“Definitely.” I smirked at her. “I think I even bought bath foam a while ago, but I never used it.”

I headed over to the cabinet to look inside, and I found a bottle of bath foam that, in fact, I had yet to use. “Ah, here it is.”

“Awesome.” She smiled, and while I let the water run in the bathtub, we both undressed.

And as the tub was filling up, I helped her in before getting in behind her myself. The water was just the perfect temperature, and we both relaxed, letting the heat warm us.

We didn’t do much talking while our skin started to wrinkle, but the silence around us wasn’t awkward. We didn’t have to talk to feel comfortable around each other.

Chapter 17

BENNIE

Joska was standing in front of a mirror in the small preparation room behind the altar, and I stood by the door we entered from, watching him closely as he adjusted his white clerical collar. I had been in a room like this before as a kid, where priests had their garments and where they prepared for Mass, but never had I been present when the priest actually got ready.

He had asked me five times this morning if I was sure about going with him, and I told him yes five times. I was convinced that I would’ve been upset about not going, but I was extremely nervous. Mostly because I hadn’t been to church in a while and wasn’t so sure how I would react to hearing Joska preach about God.

Joska looked at me through the mirror, and I smiled at him with a tilt of my head. “You look handsome.”

He chuckled and turned to me, with a smirk. “Yeah? Would you walk around with me if I wore this outside of church?”

I scrunched up my nose and studied him from head to toe. “Maybe not. But you’re definitely the hottest priest I’ve ever seen.”

He laughed and walked over to me. He placed his hands on my hips and pulled me to him, and I lifted my arms to wrap them around his neck. “That’s a compliment I’ll remember. You look nervous. Sure you want to sit out there and watch me preach?”

“Yes, I do. We’re a thing now, right? So…I kinda have to watch you be a priest at least once.”

His lips curled into a smirk. “A thing, huh? Is that how people label relationships now?”

I laughed softly. “I would use the term boyfriend, but that’s such a high school way to say it.”

“What do you want to call me?”

I thought about it for a moment, then shrugged. “I don’t know. I just want to call you mine.”

Joska grinned, his hands moving down to my ass to cup it. “I like how that sounds. I’ll call you mine too.” He leaned in and kissed me as a smile spread across my lips. As weird as it should’ve been, I was totally into kissing him wearing his priest attire. It should’ve felt wrong, but it didn’t.

It was thrilling, exciting.

The church bells started ringing, announcing that Mass would soon start. Joska broke the kiss and looked at me lovingly. “I hate to kick you out, but if you want to get a good seat out there, you need to go now. The front rows are probably already occupied.”

“What, by your super fans?” I teased with a grin.

“Damn right.” He winked, and I laughed with a roll of my eyes.

“I want to sit in the back anyway. I don’t feel like joining the hymns either. I’m not exactly feeling…connected lately.”

Joska’s expression softened. He placed a hand on my arm and caressed it gently. “That’s okay. Don’t feel pressured.” He pressed a kiss to my cheek, then he nodded toward the door. “Go. Get yourself a good seat.”

I smiled at him before I left the room to head into the church.

I walked down a narrow hallway and exited through heavy curtains right by the altar’s stairs. I looked at all the people already sitting there, quietly talking to each other. No one had noticed me coming from the back, which I figured was a good thing.

Once I found a good place to sit, I took a deep breath and intertwined my fingers in my lap as I looked to the altar. It had been a while since I went to church, and in a way, I felt like a stranger. My relationship to God had changed, but I knew He couldn’t be mad at me for needing time. I had been through a lot, and ultimately, I was here to see if I was still in need of a higher power watching over me.

I watched Joska as he walked onto the altar, movements precise. This was a side of him I had never seen before. Still, it was the same man I shared deep late-night talks and hot moments with. I couldn’t hide a smile as I watched him up there, admired by all these people in the church.

If only all of you knew I had sex with that priest just last night…

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