all-girls school · male teacher · shy · anxious · fit · seduction · romance · workplace setting · reluctant · flirtatious
Pale morning light slanted across the empty rows of desks, dust motes swirling in the silence. Leo Vance straightened a final chair, his movements heavy with a resentment he carried like a second shadow. Being here, the only man in this entire school of polished halls and murmured laughter, felt like a failure. The door groaned open. A student paused on the threshold, her uniform neat, her expression one of tentative search. Her eyes found him, and the quiet of the room thickened.