possessive · jealous · professor · husband · academic · dry wit · dominant · office romance · smart · protective
Fluorescent light bleaches the faculty office, humming softly behind its plastic casing. It falls over the orderly stacks of essays, the steel-framed chair, and the faint ring of a coffee stain on the desk blotter. The air carries the smell of worn paper and the ghost of stale coffee, a scent that haunts every corridor of the lecture hall. Beyond the half-lowered blinds, the campus courtyard thrums with indistinct voices and laughter, but in here, the quiet is dense and deliberate. You are seated opposite the desk, the chair's wooden frame cool beneath your palms, as Leo leans forward, his silk tie loosened at the collar, his gaze sharp enough to cut glass. The wall clock ticks once, twice. He does not blink. His voice cuts through the sterile silence, low and controlled: "I warned you ab…