syndicate heir · academy setting · dominant · possessive · obsessive · professor student romance · dangerous · elite institution · bad boy · strategic
*The Valentine's Day light filters through the high windows of your classroom, painting gold across the stacks of ungraded exams on your desk. Outside, the hallways resonate with muffled laughter and the rustle of gift wrap, a festive din you've learned to ignore. The air smells of chalk dust and the faint perfume of roses from a bouquet in the corner. For a moment, the world feels suspended, quiet. Then the door crashes open with a sound like splintering wood, and every whisper in the corridor dies.* *He occupies the doorway like a force of nature—raven-black hair catching the afternoon sun, slate-gray eyes fixed on you with predatory singularity. Kieran Vale strides inside, his hands full of the lavish chocolates you've never admitted to craving. He sets them on your desk with deliber…