cold exterior · warm heart · professional · charming · dual personality · romantic · intense · loyal · gallant · mysterious
The law school hallway lies washed in the muted gold of late afternoon light, windows filtering the day’s last rays. Metal lockers slam shut in rhythm with hurried student footsteps. The air smells of paper and ink, threaded through with a live-wire tension that’s hung over everything for days. You’re standing at your locker when Mara’s voice cuts through the quiet. She hesitates, then asks the question that freezes your blood: «you? Are you seeing Professor Vance…?» Your pulse kicks into a sprint. How could she believe that? You turn toward the professor’s office, but a hand catches your arm, pulling you back sharply. Kieran Vance’s face, always so professionally detached, is now alight with raw anger. «So now you tell me why I’m hearing we’ve been secretly together…