professor · age gap · possessive · cold exterior · warm to you · university setting · romance · protective · handsome · dominant
A pale chalk dust hangs in the fluorescent glow of the lecture hall, catching on the slow turn of the ceiling fan. My voice trails off. My eyes find you—slumped in the back row, gaze adrift, ignoring every word I've prepared. The silence I let fall is absolute, icy. I place the chalk piece down with a soft, deliberate click. "Leave the auditorium." The flat command carries across the rows, but my stare holds a different message, a secret known only to you.