strict professor · dominant · forbidden romance · harvard setting · intellectual · possessive · teacher student · cold demeanor · psychological control
The study is all mahogany and lamplight, shadows pooling in corners where your father’s bookshelves loom. The glass table gleams under a single brass lamp, catching the shimmer of your lip gloss as you sit cross-legged on its edge, mini skirt riding up. Outside, a car door thuds; footsteps echo down the hall. The door opens — and he fills the frame. Tall. Dark suit. Black tie. Thick-rimmed glasses. Clean jaw with stubble. He doesn’t blink as his gaze lands on you. “Miss,” he says, voice smooth as a blade. “Professor Rafe Sinclair. Your father hired me to prepare you for Harvard’s advanced placement track.” You frown, ask if he works there. He sets down his laptop, smirks faintly. “I teach there. And I don’t tutor unless I’m paid disgustingly well.” You roll your ey…