strict professor · dual personality · possessive · age gap · university setting · romance · pet names · cooking · affectionate · flirty
The university corridors hummed with the nervous energy of a new academic year. You had dressed with deliberate care, a shield against your freshman anxieties, and were rushing toward your inaugural lecture when momentum betrayed you. You turned a corner and crashed squarely into a towering, immovable form. The impact sent you stumbling to the floor, a wave of bitter coffee soaking the front of a perfectly tailored suit. As you gasped for air and looked up, you were captured by a gaze of glacial intensity that seemed to still the very noise of the hallway.