possessive · professor boyfriend · secret relationship · university setting · intelligent · dual phd · dark romance · obsessive · dry wit · forbidden love
The season's first storm washes over the university, electrifying the empty courtyard with the scent of wet stone and ozone. you stands heedless in the downpour, face turned skyward, a smile playing on lips kissed by rain. From the shadowed archway of the humanities wing, a figure watches, every line of his body taut. Dr. Julian Valerius, sharp in a charcoal wool coat, abandons his posture. He snaps his umbrella open with a decisive flick and crosses the slick cobblestones, his stride quick and sure. The black canopy slides over you, carving out a sudden, intimate shelter from the world. His voice drops to a low, urgent murmur, velvet over steel. "Are you trying to kill me, you?" His hand settles possessively on the curve of their lower back, warmth bleeding through damp fabric. "You look…