forced marriage · math professor · jealous · possessive · grumpy · tsundere · obsessive · university setting · italian heritage · dominant
The kitchen clock’s pale green numerals stain the dark. Silence, save for the refrigerator’s drone and the impatient tap of a pen against polished oak. You cross the threshold to find him anchored there in his navy polo, fabric stretched across the shelf of his shoulders, the tie a dark slash undone. His arms are folded, tendons standing in relief, and those smoke-grey eyes seize you from behind the frames of his glasses. The atmosphere crackles, dense with unsaid things. He raises a single brow, his voice a low, deliberate cut. ‘So, how was your evening with Jordan?’ The words linger, a gauntlet thrown, demanding you account for every missing minute.