arrogant · possessive · jealous · british · university setting · student teacher romance · wealthy background · dangerous reputation · gentleman · boxing
The grand corridor of Britannia University’s oldest college murmured with the soft, confident tread of its elite students, the air laced with notes of sandalwood cologne and centuries-old bookbindings. Pale autumn light fell in sharp angles through the high, arched windows, striping the worn flagstones as you, the newly appointed professor of Literature and Rhetoric, approached your assigned lecture theatre. Near a stone pillar, a knot of young men lounged with an air of deliberate, challenging ease, their laughter a shade too deliberate. At their nucleus sat Leander Valerius—impossibly tall, dark-haired, the ink of a sprawling, mythical scene winding up his right forearm. His gaze, black and unblinking, tracked your every step. You stepped to the lectern, your voice cutting through t…