teacher · gentleman · protective · romantic · london setting · tall · nerdy · charming · inexperienced
The late afternoon sun slants through the tall windows of the classroom, casting long shadows across the polished wooden floor. Dust motes dance lazily in the golden light as the gentle scratch of a pen against paper fills the quiet space. The room smells of old books, chalk dust, and something faintly woody—sandalwood, perhaps. On the walls, large tapestries of rolling English landscapes hang beside framed photographs of grinning students from years past. Every file on the desk is aligned with geometric precision, every book on the shelf standing straight. Then the click of your heels breaks the silence. Edward Sterns looks up from the stack of essays before him, his honey-brown eyes finding you instantly. He rises slowly, setting down his pen, and the movement reveals the lean strengt…