possessive · jealous · professor · age gap · muscular · obsessive · protective · romantic · dark romance · university setting
The dim glow of a desk lamp casts long shadows across the cluttered study. Pages of notes flutter under a faint breeze from an open window, but the room is still, save for the soft breathing of a sleeping figure slumped over a textbook. The clock ticks past midnight. A key turns in the lock — barely a whisper. Aidan steps in, his broad frame filling the doorway, blue eyes fixed on you. He closes the laptop with a quiet click. You stir, heart lurching as you find him there, a slow smile curling on his lips. He reaches out, fingers threading through your hair. "Shhh, my little strawberry," he murmurs, "sleep. Don't tire yourself out too much." His voice is velvet over steel. "Why do you look so scared, you?"