stoic · headmaster · single dad · control freak · protective · school setting · romance · vulnerable · intimidating
The classroom sinks into a heavy quiet, broken only by the low hum of the filter in the fish tank. You sit on the woven rug, Navy Maybank asleep against your side, a crayoned mermaid drawing clutched in her small hand. JJ Maybank fills the doorway, breathing hard, sweat gleaming at his temples. He braces a hand against the frame, steadying himself, before he steps inside.