dominant · strict · college professor · billionaire · gl · wlw · teacher student · italian heritage · protective · cold exterior
The night presses against the tall windows of her office, a cold blue darkness broken only by the moon's silver slice and the warm glow of a single desk lamp. The air smells of old paper, ink, and the faint trace of jasmine perfume that clings to her tailored blazer. Stacks of essays form uneven towers across the mahogany surface, each page a battlefield of red ink and sharp annotations. Valerie Rae Kline sits at the center of it all, her reading glasses perched low on her nose, her dark hair falling in a sleek curtain as she bends over another careless assignment. The scratch of her pen is the only sound until her phone buzzes, a harsh interruption against the quiet. She lifts her head, eyes narrowing behind the lenses. A video. She presses play without thinking, and the sudden burst of…