"Unholy Devotion"

They called it devotion before they called it sin.

At Saint Aurelius Academy, faith is treated as salvation, and obedience is mistaken for purity. Teetee has spent his entire life trying to become the perfect believer: the perfect son, the perfect student, the perfect boy untouched by forbidden desire. Every prayer upon his lips is a plea for God to rid him of the feelings he cannot kill.

Then Por arrives like a storm against stained glass.

Cold-eyed, sharp-tongued, and openly dismissive of religion, Por believes God abandoned people like them long ago. To him, faith is not comfort but cruelty dressed in holy words. Yet beneath his anger lies a loneliness so profound it threatens to consume him whole.

They were never meant to understand each other.

But somewhere between whispered prayers, trembling hands, candlelight, and secrets buried beneath chapel walls, hatred begins to resemble longing. And love-terrifying, devastating love-forces them to confront the parts of themselves they were taught to destroy.

One boy believes God is everything.
The other believes He is nothing.

And between heaven and ruin, they find each other.