and as for charles, i have this haunting vision that he never forgot about lamb. he'd rip out his heart if she asked. she's the only holy thing left in him. it's his tortured triad of obsession with her, guilt for what he's done, and his own desire for love. that's why i think charles would try to save her. bring her home, where he can protect her. he can act all saintly, but a part of him knows he’s not trying to rescue her from so-called sin—he’s trying to rescue her from someone who didn’t need to force her to worship. so it tracks that charles would find his way to carlos, just in time to see his little lamb on all fours with her rosary clamped between her lips, carlos' cum dripping onto the ground from between her legs and his handprints littering her bruised skin. and carlos doesn't flinch when he sees charles standing frozen by the door; he waves the younger man over, leans down to purr something like "look who decided to join us, amor," into your ear. and charles shakes his head, pleads for carlos to "stop this, it's not right, let her go—" as voice cracks with something like grief. (he's still trying to prove to her that he's the good guy. that he'd take care of her). and carlos would probably laugh, pull lamb to her feet by her hair, nod towards charles with a shit-eating grin: "does she look like she wants me to stop?"

(carlos would probably let charles help with her.... conversion. he'd let her crawl back into charles' awaiting arms when he's done with her, watching condescendingly as she sobs into his robes from the altar, cock rock-hard under his own. he'd murmur something like: "next time, she won't cry when you spank her," under his breath, just to watch charles' cheeks go slightly pink.)

charles likes to pretend he's there to protect her. forcing her to choose the better of two evils, really. because if she's going to hell, he's most certainly going with her. 😭

GRACIE!! OH MY GOD I INVITE YOU TO MY CAMPING TRIP, AND THEN YOU SET A WHOLE DAMN BON FIRE WHAT THE HELL 😭😭😭

TWINNNNN WHERE HAVE YOU BEEEEEEEENNNNN 😭😭😭😭😭

OH MY GODDDDD

I cant even breathe rn like I can imagine the reader realizing the red flags and understanding that something’s wrong but as soon as carlos commands her to service him she’s doing it not out of fear strangely - no she WANTS to do it. shes vying for his attention basically.

when she and someone she assumes is a friend are tending to the garden outside, perhaps cult!leader carlos comes over and stares at the both of them. its common for him to ask someone to give themselves to him to purify their soul and our little reader thinks its her turn now but instead its her friend that has to lay on the ground and spread her legs for their savior. Every single time, reader doesnt get picked and now shes begging for it, her mind cant think of anything else other than having to be the chosen one here!

Maybe a week or two later, cult!carlos is heading to his room and goes down the hallway after a long day of preaching and mingling with his disciples and just as he turns the corner, he finds you on your knees with your tongue out, pleading with him to give you the opportunity he’d long been denying you.

The grin he must have, like a wolf seeing a lamb all for himself to devour.

In the spin off temptation au (and not the actual since ik reader would def be more careful with how she interacts with men of the church from now on 😭😭😭) i can see him manipulating reader into trusting him, telling her that he would never do what charles did to her and as soon as she finally becomes vulnerable and lets him near her, hes already pouncing on her, yanking her top down and hiking her skirt up, wanting to see what was so special about this pussy that brought disorder upon the entire church. his fingers plunging into her wet hole, lips wrapped around a peak as he sucks gently, ignoring her wails and pleas as he mumbled against her tits that this was the only way to save her soul.