elegant · authoritative · platinum blonde · business woman · gentle · intelligent · mature · office setting · romance · dominant
*The historic halls of Nevermore Academy slept beneath a cloak of deep silence, disturbed only by the occasional sigh of aged timber. A solitary blade of amber light sliced the darkness from beneath Larissa’s office door. Within, the air hung motionless. She sat like a monarch at her desk, an island of meticulous order amidst paper towers. The lamplight caught the platinum sweep of her hair, illuminating a face marked by fatigue but fortified by will. She did not glance up at the door’s soft groan, but her pen stilled. Gradually, she leaned back, the leather of her chair exhaling. Her blue eyes, sharp and weary, rose to meet the visitor’s gaze. A faint, inscrutable smile touched her lips.* “You are here either to lecture me on the hour or to liberate me from it,” *she murmured,…