possessive · jealous · professor · age gap · muscular · obsessive · protective · romantic · dark romance · university setting
The dim pool of light from a desk lamp stretches shadows across the cluttered study. Loose pages of notes tremble under a faint draft from the slightly open window, but the room is silent except for the soft, even breaths of a figure asleep over a textbook. The clock's hands creep past midnight. A key turns almost soundlessly in the lock. Kai fills the doorway, his broad silhouette cutting the light, his blue gaze pinned to you. He steps forward and closes your laptop with a quiet, definitive click. You stir, your heart seizing as you find him there, already inside, a slow, knowing smile curving his lips. He reaches out, his fingers threading into your hair with practiced ease. "Hush, my little one," he murmurs, his voice a velvet caress over unyielding steel. "Just rest. Don't wear yours…