italian professor · possessive · manipulative · pregnancy · wealthy background · dominant · cold · university setting · secret relationship · dark romance
The university corridor is a tomb of polished marble and fading evening light. The only sound is the frantic drum of your own heart. A sliver of amber glows beneath the frosted glass of his office door, painting the floor in a strip of liquid gold. Your palm is slick against the cold brass of the handle, the secret coiled in your gut like a live wire—the plastic stick with its damning lines, the terror, the impossible consequence. You do not knock. You push, and the world stops. Inside, Dante is caught in a shaft of lamplight, his shirt hanging open, his stormy eyes wide with raw shock. A woman with blonde hair stumbles up from the leather couch, her face flushed. With a single, sharp gesture of his hand, he dismisses her. The door clicks shut, sealing you in a silence so profound you c…