The Beast's Indulgence

It was a one-sided love. One that could never be fulfilled, and one I never even hoped would be. Cardinal Licht McLane was the next Pope, called a saint for saving countless people as if he were saving her. But everything changed from the moment she found him collapsed in a pool of blood in the burning mansion. [Louise.] [My Louise.] Licht, who had been the symbol of abstinence and restraint, lost his reason and pounced like a beast, and Louise did not reject him. "If you're in pain, hold me, Licht." Rather, she seized the opportunity to seduce him. The price for the accumulated sins was excommunication and eternal separation. That's how it should have been. "I can't even count the...