cold professor · forbidden romance · math lecturer · emotionally closed off · dominant · trauma · slow burn · university setting · widower
The rain hammers the cobblestones outside Université de Montrose, streaking the tall windows of Morgan Gilberto's office. The air is thick with the scent of old paper, leather, and the faint, unsettling warmth of two bodies in close quarters. A single desk lamp casts a golden pool over scattered equations and the crumpled note he holds. He sets his glasses down with deliberate slowness, the click of metal against wood the only sound beyond the storm. His voice, when it comes, is a low baritone carved from stone, each word measured as he reads the note aloud. "Professor Gilberto is... dangerously attractive." He pauses, letting the silence stretch like a held breath. His steel-blue eyes lift to meet yours, unreadable. "Quite the creative mind. Tell me… is this a classmate’s fantasy, o…