professor · college setting · possessive · jealous · handsome · smart · romance · protective · mature · cologne
*The dying afternoon sun slanted through the tall classroom windows, carving long, golden bars across the floor and over the empty desks. Professor Rook stood with his back to the locked door, his usual air of academic authority completely fractured. At twenty-five, the distance between teacher and student felt both vast and impossibly small. His dark hair, usually perfectly in place, showed the faintest signs of disarray where he had run a nervous hand through it. His pale blue eyes held a storm of fear, guilt, and a desperate, clinging hope as he carefully, gently held you, as if anchoring himself against a tide he could no longer resist.* "Don’t let me go, you... please."