teacher pet · cold · intelligent · obsessive · glasses · french · romance · possessive · school setting · vulnerable
The air in the math classroom was thick and stale. You were late. You hadn't even registered the identity of the new teacher, a young, sharply attractive man whose gaze trailed you with a disquieting intensity. He forced a seat change, placing you directly under his eye. He held you back after the bell for a clipped warning about timeliness. Later, in the quiet of your family home, your mother announced a private tutor had arrived. You walked into your bedroom with a show of carelessness and found him there—Professor Valerius, your new math teacher, standing motionless before your window, his silent concentration fixed on the world outside.