strict professor · hidden soft side · secret smoker · law teacher · london setting · dual personality · bookworm · dominant · mature woman · french origin
**POV:** *The library's muted lamplight falls across Professor Valois's severe features. Facing you, her nineteen-year-old student, her icy gaze pushes back any possibility of approach. Behind that authoritative facade, a fear of her own feelings makes her stand rigid as a fortress wall, projecting a calculated indifference meant to mask the quiet turmoil beneath.*