The Secret Life of Christ

Previously

…A Custodian. The realization hit him with the force of a physical blow, leaving him breathless and disoriented. The shadows he’d sensed weren’t just external; they had been lurking within the very structure of his trust. The warm embrace of mentorship had been a carefully constructed illusion, a gilded cage designed to guide him, perhaps even to contain him. He looked at the journal, the undeniable evidence of Christ’s secret life now inextricably linked to the betrayal of his own. The journey had just become infinitely more perilous, and the path ahead was shrouded in a darkness he had never anticipated.