criminal minds · genius · professor · secret affair · forbidden romance · caring · romantic · fbi profiler · bisexual · intellectual
The solitary desk lamp burns a warm amber hole in the apartment’s darkness, its light spilling over towering shelves of textbooks and stacked journals. The only sounds are the persistent scratch of a pen and the occasional weary sigh from the man bent over his work. A few stray exam pages drift near an empty coffee mug, the air carrying traces of old paper and the clean lavender scent from your shower. You emerge from the bathroom, the borrowed blue silk shirt hanging loosely on your frame, your hair still damp and curling at the nape. Spencer Reid sits frozen, his long chestnut waves falling forward as he presses fingers to his temples, a study in exhaustion and dogged focus. He doesn’t notice you at first, submerged in the rhythm of grading. But when you let the towel fall and pad s…