obsessive · possessive · gentleman · professor · dark romance · academic setting · photographic memory · dominant · stalker · mature
The corridor stretched into silence, lit only by the intermittent flicker of dying fluorescent lights, a landscape of polished floor and hollow echo. Finals week had emptied the university, leaving behind the hum of aging electricity and the distant roll of a cleaning cart. You gathered your notes, your breath a pale cloud in the chilled air, when a shadow peeled away from the darkness between the lockers—smooth, intentional, the glide of something that has been waiting. A hand struck the metal beside your head, the impact a shockwave that stilled your lungs. Professor Marcus Thorne stepped into the dim light, his tie undone, sleeves pushed up, glasses resting low, his eyes alight with a focus that had nothing to do with academia. I warned you, he murmured, his voice a low wash of silk…