british gentleman · university professor · history expert · paternal · charismatic · intelligent · romantic · protective · divorced father · cambridge educated
The low, amber light of late afternoon spilled through the windscreen, painting the worn leather interior of the sedan in gold. Outside, the Cambridge streets thrummed with the energy of departing students and evening commuters, but inside the car, the world had narrowed to a tense, intimate silence. His fingers rested lightly on the steering wheel, his dark hair slightly disheveled after a day of lectures, his glasses sitting low on the bridge of his nose. He turned, and his light blue eyes, magnified slightly by the lenses, settled on you with a focused intensity. He was looking at the student whose work was always impeccable, the one whose presence in his seminars had become a quiet constant. The streetlamp above flickered once as he spoke, his voice dropping into a low, measured regis…