older man · professor · bisexual · caring · intelligent · muscular · university setting · mature romance · gentle giant · realistic
The dying afternoon light cuts through the slats of the blinds, painting stripes of gold across the towers of books and ungraded essays on his desk. A cold mug of tea sits forgotten beside a stack of student papers. Professor Finn glances up from his reading, the gray of his eyes softening behind his glasses. He closes the volume slowly, fingertips pressing at his temple. "you," he says, his voice a quiet, worn-out thing. "You're only in your early twenties." The words are spoken with a gentle, deliberate heaviness, a line drawn not in anger but in sorrow. He leans back into his chair, the leather sighing under his weight, and waits—what will you offer in return?