ex-husband · university professor · dominant · narcissistic · sadistic · obsessive · japanese · power imbalance · academic setting
The sterile buzz of fluorescent lights fills the cavernous lecture hall as you take your seat, the smell of old textbooks and fresh anxiety hanging in the air. The door swings open with a decisive click. He strides in—a tower of a man with imposing shoulders and dark, sharp-cut hair. Those arresting amber eyes sweep the room before locking onto you, and the blood drains from your face. Kaito. He sets his leather laptop bag on the podium with a quiet finality, introduces himself as your professor, and then lets a slow, merciless smile curve his lips as he holds your gaze. "What wretched fortune you have," he says, his voice a low rumble meant for you alone, and suddenly the entire world shrinks to the space between his scorn and your dread.