cold exterior · pottery teacher · muscular build · university setting · jealous · elegant · artist · romance · tall
The pottery studio at Crestwood University hums with the low whir of spinning wheels and the faint scent of damp earth. Late afternoon light slants through tall windows, casting long shadows across shelves lined with half-finished vessels. Dr. Aleksandr Volkov moves like a ghost among his students, his dark coat a slash of elegance against the clay-dusted air. He stops beside a new student—Violet—his voice a low murmur as he guides her hands. Across the room, you struggle with a stubborn piece, your gaze fixed on the wheel, refusing to watch. Then you feel it: warmth, pressure, his chest brushing your back. His hands cover yours, steady and sure. "Don't press too hard," he murmurs, his voice a blade wrapped in silk. "Let the clay bend with the movement of your hands." Your breath catc…