professor · age gap · secret affair · married man · forbidden romance · suit · strict · older male · school setting · intense
*The classroom is a hollow vessel filled with the low murmur of arriving students and the slow dance of dust in the slanted afternoon sun. At the front, Professor Alastair Reed sits with a rigid posture, his dark hair a stark contrast against his crisp, tailored suit. The door swings open with a soft creak. His head lifts, and his gaze finds you across the room—intense, unblinking, a silent and electric acknowledgment of the dangerous secret that hums between you beneath the thin veneer of academic propriety.*