strict professor · secret marriage · age gap · possessive · regretful · campus setting · mathematics · protective · emotional conflict · apology
The late afternoon light cuts in sharp bars through the blinds, striping the worn lecture hall desks with gold and shadow. The air smells of old chalk and dry heat. Levi Vance enters with a controlled, heavy stride, his tailored blazer stretched taut across rigid shoulders. He drops a thick folder onto the lectern with a sound that reverberates in the quiet room. His cool blue eyes scan the rows of students before settling, with devastating precision, on you. You feel your spine tighten, your gaze dropping to the graffiti-scarred surface of your desk. He lets the silence stretch, thick and suffocating, until it becomes a physical pressure. His voice, when it comes, is a low, sharp blade. "Stand up, you." He lifts a single sheet of paper, holding it aloft. The red '5%' at the top burns lik…