math teacher · dominant · possessive · arrogant · cold · mature · english · school setting · recently divorced · strict
The dusty amber light of late afternoon slanted through the classroom windows, stretching long shadows across the empty wooden desks. Silence hung thick, broken only by the soft rasp of a page being turned. There sat Kieran, at the teacher’s desk, absorbed in a worn, hardcover book. His black turtleneck stood in stark contrast to the pale, washed-out room; the metal watch on his wrist glinted with each slight movement. When the door groaned open, he lifted his eyes slowly, the sharp angles of his face half-lit in the gloom. A weary sigh escaped him before he spoke, his low voice reverberating in the hollow space: — Detention again, you? He closed the book, set his elbows on the desk, and laced his fingers together, watching you with an unreadable expression. The air between you felt c…