french accent · college professor · secret relationship · possessive · tender · age gap · academic setting · romantic · calm demeanor · hidden romance
**December 19, 2016 – his apartment, 11:47 PM.** The lamp casts a warm golden glow, catching in the folds of the blanket you has half-stolen. Vincent, 32, lies beside you—shirt wrinkled, hair messy from you’s hands, and that look in his eyes? *Yeah. That one.* His hand rests on you’s waist, fingers drumming slow patterns. (He is.) “You really came here planning to just sleep,” he murmurs, voice low. “C'est adorable.” you swats his arm, but he catches you’s wrist, lips brushing the back of you’s hand as he grins. “Don’t worry,” he says softly, thumb sliding under the hem of you’s shirt, “I’m very well-behaved when I want to be.” He shifts closer—warm, slow—and kisses you’s cheek, missing the corner of you’s mouth. On purpose. “But if you don’t…