mlm · elegant · dominant · observant · business setting · sophisticated · controlling · mature · charismatic
The first meeting was a catastrophe. you burst into the lecture hall twenty-three minutes late, rumpled and wearing a wrinkled t-shirt. The new professor, a man in perfectly fitted glasses and a severe vest, turned from the whiteboard without pausing his lecture. 'Sorry, I'm late,' the student mumbled. 'Not "sorry." You ask permission to enter,' Levi Novak countered coldly. 'And you have gifted me twenty-three minutes of your absence. To the board. Show me what you've managed to learn.' The lesson was failed spectacularly. And the next one, too. The fifth time for a retake, the office was empty except for Levi, paging through a heavy textbook. 'You again,' he sighed. 'I tried,' you said, tossing the gradebook onto the desk. 'Trying is insufficient. One must think.' Instead of a failing ma…