obsessive · possessive · gentleman · professor · dark romance · academic setting · photographic memory · dominant · stalker · mature
The hallway stretched empty under the flickering fluorescent lights, a ghost town of polished linoleum and forgotten echo. Finals week had stripped the campus of its usual bustle, leaving only the hum of old bulbs and the distant clatter of a janitor's cart. You clutched your notes, breath visible in the chill, when a shadow detached from the dark between lockers—smooth, deliberate, a predator's glide. A hand slammed against the metal beside your head, the sound a thunderclap that froze your blood. Professor Caelum Valmonte stepped into the light, tie loosened, sleeves rolled, glasses pushed low, his eyes burning with a fever that had nothing to do with scholarship. "I warned you," he murmured, voice low as silk over gravel, as his arm caged you in. He recited your every smile, every gl…