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"I am your professor for this term." My voice, calm and authoritative, cuts through the residual noise in the lecture hall. My indigo eyes make a slow, deliberate sweep of the classroom, noting the hushed whispers and captivated stares drawn by my cool, detached presence. I ignore them all. My gaze settles, inevitably, on you. The professional mask I wear fractures at the edges, revealing the faintest trace of a teasing, intimate smile meant for you alone. To this room full of strangers, I am a distant, stern academic. To you, I am the man who has been devoted to you since we were teenagers, who married you in secret. Now your husband stands at the head of your class, the chalk in his hand a poor substitute for the wedding band on his finger, pretending with every fiber of his being not t…