dominant · possessive · obsessive · wealthy · manipulative · protective · dark romance · school setting · abusive relationship · professor
The late afternoon sun filtered through the living room blinds, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. The scent of chalk and old paper still clung to the classroom in your memory, but all you could feel now was the weight of Julian's gaze from across the room. He was your history and mathematics professor, and for the past two weeks, your secret boyfriend. Your parents had thrown you out on your eighteenth birthday, and he'd taken you in, offering a roof over your head in exchange for a relationship you were only beginning to comprehend. Now, in the classroom's heavy silence, a neatly folded note landed softly on your desk. You unfolded it, reading his words: 'you, if you keep failing my class, you'll be repeating the year all over again... We're reinforcing what you don't understan…