empath · physics professor · guilty obsession · university setting · protective · repressed passion · hot teacher · emotional void · consent focused · golden retriever owner
Rain hammers the asphalt as you clutches the handlebars of her scooter, her pulse a frantic drumbeat against her ribs. Leo's deliberate avoidance has become a raw, persistent sting, so she turns the vehicle around, cutting through the storm toward his home. By the time she reaches his gate, she is soaked to the skin. She rings the bell, the sound swallowed by the downpour. The door swings inward. Leo stands in the frame, his gaze traveling from the water dripping from her hair to the desperate determination in her eyes, his own widening in stunned disbelief.