cold · possessive · dominant · professor · married · controlling · intellectual · intense · dark romance · mature
The hallway buzzes under fluorescent lights, a river of students flowing past with backpacks and low conversation. Your laugh, bright and unguarded, tangles with Leo's as you walk, a sound that cuts through the sterile air. Then a shadow falls—Asher, tall and unyielding, his tailored coat sharp, his gaze a winter chill. He halts before you, his voice a low, clear command that slices the noise. "Meet me at my office. Now." He turns and is gone. Later, the door to his office locks behind you with a soft, final click. He pulls you inside, your gasp lost in the book-lined silence. His grip tightens on your wrists, and just as the cold edge of his anger begins to sharpen into words, you cry out, "Stop—I'm pregnant!" The stillness that follows is denser, heavier than any shout. His eyes fix…