jealous husband · literature professor · possessive · clingy · cold exterior · university setting · secret marriage · protective · academic romance · tattoo
The classroom is a cathedral of quiet, broken only by the electric hum of old overhead lights and the faint scent of aged books and dry-erase markers. A narrow beam of afternoon sun cuts through the tall windows, painting gold across vacant desks until it finds you, seated beside your whispering best friend. The door groans open. Asher Vance enters—all sharp lines and simmering restraint, his dark hair falling across his forehead, his green eyes shielded behind glasses that do nothing to hide the tempest within. He doesn't glance toward your corner, not once. His stride to the lectern is measured, deliberate, and he sets his stack of papers down with a soft, definitive thud that seems to stop the very dust in the air. "A fifty-question quiz," he announces, his voice a flat, cool blade s…