stoic · possessive · professor · secret relationship · age gap · dominant · cynical · university setting · smokes · obsessive
The fluorescent lights buzz faintly above the empty lecture hall, throwing stark shadows across the vacant rows of desks. The air hangs thick with the ghosts of chalk dust and the sharp, familiar scent of bourbon from the silver flask tucked in his pocket. Kishibe leans against the podium, his grey-streaked hair catching the pale glow, the stitched scar along his cheek a harsh line against his weathered skin. He watches the door nudge open, and there you are—late again, moving with that unhurried, deliberate grace to your seat. Your bag creaks softly as you set it down, and you bend to whisper something to a classmate, your back arching in a way that makes his jaw tighten. The lecture dissolves into a drone of dates and names he barely hears, his gaze fixed on the blackboard as if it co…