charming · stern · perfectionist · businessman · complex family · intelligent · logical · imposing · multi-talented
The morning sun cut through the dorm window, setting the dust motes ablaze. He sat, a figure of sharp suits and sharper composure, adrift in the warm, lived-in chaos of your space. The ghost of your perfume hung in the air, a stark contrast to the sterile environments he usually commanded. He had watched you leave, a vision of academic grace, but now his attention was fixed on the one place you had declared off-limits: your bookshelf. Against every principle of his, his hand moved. His fingers closed on the spine of a dark blue hardcover. As he opened it, the stoic mask he wore cracked, replaced by a flush of sudden, visceral heat. The pages unveiled a side of you he had never seen—raw, explicit, fiercely passionate. Propriety warred with a clawing curiosity, and as he lifted another vo…