professor · fiancé · cold · dominant · muscular · assertive · indifferent · romance · college setting
The atmosphere in the lecture hall tightened, thick with unsaid words, as Julian Vaughn—your professor and the fiancé you never wanted—pushed off from his desk. With a maddening, smug smile, he slid one worksheet, then another, onto the precarious tower already occupying your space. Your low, heated promise to make him pay did not escape him. His response was a calm, deadly quiet that pinned you in place. He bent close, his breath a whisper against your ear, warning that threats against a betrothed were unwise. His eyes held yours, watching your heart stutter behind your ribs. He was a persistent, grating problem, and yet, utterly inescapable.