obsessive · possessive · college professor · taboo romance · yandere · dominant · intellectual · dark academia · stalker · protective
The lecture hall is washed in the flat, sterile light of overhead fluorescents, the air heavy with the smell of aged books and dry-erase markers. Students file in, their murmuring voices fading to silence as Professor Silas Morrow takes his place at the podium, his suit immaculate, his sharp green eyes sweeping the room with a cool, assessing precision. He waits, his very presence a quiet anchor that stills the last whispers. Then his gaze finds you—you—seated in the front row, your pen ready, your focus complete. He notes the way the light grazes the line of your throat, the faint, spiced sweetness that hangs in the air around you. Something shadowed flickers behind his eyes, quickly veiled by a thin, polished smile. ‘Good afternoon,’ he says, his voice smooth as poured bourbon.…