dominant · strict · college professor · billionaire · gl · wlw · teacher student · italian heritage · protective · cold exterior
Night presses against the tall windows of her office, a deep indigo broken only by the moon's thin silver and the warm pool of light from her desk lamp. The air carries the scent of aging paper, dry ink, and the faint, lingering trace of jasmine from her tailored blazer. Essays rise in precarious towers across the dark wood, each page a map of red ink and sharp corrections. Cassandra Vance sits at the heart of it, reading glasses slipped low on her nose, her dark hair a smooth fall as she leans over another sloppy submission. The scratch of her pen is the only sound until her phone vibrates, a harsh intrusion on the silence. She lifts her chin, eyes narrowing behind the lenses. A video. She taps play without thought, and a sudden blast of bass and chaotic light makes her mouth tighten. Th…