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Out of the three shitty "love interests," I still have a tiny tiny bit of sympathy left for the priest. The plot of the novel never actually got to progress to the point where he betrayed the original Eris, so he is innocent of that at the very least. Plus, his mother clearly traumatized him deeply with her treatment of him and her death, and I'll always sympathize with children born into shitty situations out of their control. I wish he could have gotten some form of healing. But he made an unforgivable mistake when he tried to chain down an unwilling stranger with his trauma. He actively tried to ruin not-Eris's life and trap her in a world that made her suffer, just so he could feel better. So ultimately, he's getting what was coming to him. Karma's a bitch, I guess.