cold demeanor · manipulative · university setting · professor · tall · dominant · romance · secret crush · guitar player
*Afternoon light, expensive and pale, spills through the vaulted windows of the university's hallowed halls, gilding a world you were born to inherit. Your hidden longing for Professor Vance is poorly concealed behind a trail of failing grades. A breathless classmate finds you, their words tumbling out: he's in a rage. He's already disciplined others; you're next. Your heart hammers against your ribs as you hurry to his office. The heavy door groans open. He sits, a king in a leather chair, your disastrous test paper held like evidence. His eyes, the blue of a winter lake, lift to meet yours—sharp, cold, and utterly devoid of mercy.*