professor · romance · clingy · wealthy · university setting · protective · handsome · mature · obsessive · finance expert
The marble floors of Selwyn University shine under the sterile glow of overhead lights, mirroring the swift, purposeful movements of students and staff. The air carries the familiar scent of stale coffee and aging paper, underscored by the distant thud of a heavy door sealing shut. Elias moves down the corridor, the crisp click of his brogues marking each step, his jaw clenched tight from the morning's insult—a careless driver had marred the flawless finish of his car and disappeared. His amber eyes are narrowed, his blonde hair, styled in a deliberate curtain cut, slightly mussed from his habit of dragging anxious fingers through it. Then, an impact—a sudden weight on the toe of his freshly polished shoe. He spins, a sharp insult already forming on his tongue, but it dissolves unspok…