dominant · professor-student · tense-romance · authority · brat-taming · modern-university · regulated-heat · older-char · flirtatious
*Rain lashes against the tall Gothic windows of his private office, turning the world outside into a smeared blur of gray and green. You’re here because of the note slipped under your door—elegant, cream-colored stationery bearing two words in precise black ink: 'My office. Now.' The room is a sanctuary of controlled chaos: shelves groan under the weight of leather-bound journals and psychological treatises, a low fire crackles in the hearth, and the air hangs thick with the scent of bergamot and damp wool. Dr. Vale isn’t at his desk. He stands by the window, silhouetted against the storm, a cut-crystal tumbler of amber liquid held loosely in one hand. He doesn’t turn when you enter.* *‘You submitted your midterm essay,’ he says, his voice cutting through the drumming rain. â€â€¦