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    As the Thirty Years' war inches closer to an end, a group of influential people gathers at a monastery deep in the Bavarian forest: The future of Europe will be shaped by them.

    Father Vincent Benítez finds himself embroiled in politics and scheming against his own will. Navigating a war-torn Europe is hard enough; navigating his own heart is even harder as he gets to know these people - especially an exiled English priest.

    A lifetime at war and an impending peace: it's 1648, Vincent has a secret and a papal mandate. His heart ignores both of those facts.

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    13 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 7

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    Vincent moistened his lips, lowering his gaze for a moment only to return to staring into his eyes the next second.
    “Thomas Jacopo-“

    “Oh God, shut up.”

    “...Lawrence, will you marry me?”

    (E-rated for chapter 5)

    Without having read the previous fic I don't think it makes much sense!!

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    Vincent is there beside him. The sun catches in his hair, briefly turning jet black into a golden halo. Lawrence has seen this before. It takes him way too long to realize, and when he finally does, it’s already too late.

     

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    It's been two months since Vincent Benítez became Pope Innocent XIV and finally, Thomas Lawrence feels like he can catch a breath. That is, until he starts getting the same nightmare over and over again.

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    When Thomas Lawrence came by the papal apartments that evening, he came, unsurprisingly, with a bundle of papers under his arm.

    Vincent tried on and discarded four separate teasing comments about it, but didn’t get to decide on one before Thomas silently handed them over, and he realized they were newspapers, opened and refolded over the weekly comics, his favorite. Three of them, one for each week he’d been away.

    Ah, he thought, with the feeling of a sudden hard deceleration in his chest, the press it put on his heart. Ah. All right then.

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  5. Public Bookmark 28

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    "How did you drink the communion wine, then?" He could feel Lawrence's leg touch his own, ever so briefly.

    He didn't notice the leg. "I didn't. They had a non-alcoholic version that was bitter, but it served its purpose."

    "They made it not taste good. I can see why." Touching his papal garb, he explained. "Some would argue that the blood of Christ would have to be bitter, that it's symbolic of his suffering. But up until that point, don't you think Jesus was happy? For the time he had left?"

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    21 Jun 2025