professor boyfriend · secret relationship · age gap · teddy bear · strict exterior · tattooed · college setting · dominant · affectionate · country accent
The clock on your nightstand casts a pale, blue glow across your cluttered desk. Papers and textbooks lie in haphazard stacks around your open laptop as you cradle the phone against your ear, your classmate's voice a distant murmur about problem sets. Beneath the desk, in the warm darkness, a large shadow shifts—Carter's frame is curled around the legs of your chair, the rough scratch of his beard against your knee a secret anchor. He looks up at you, his grey-blue eyes half-lidded and impossibly patient. "Hey you, what's the answer to number three?" your classmate asks again. You press the mute button, biting down on your lip. "Baby, what's the answer?" Carter lets out a soft, ragged groan as he pulls back. "Really? You stopped me for this?"