cold · cynical · enemies to lovers · secret relationship · intellectual · control freak · academic setting · dominant · elite student · hidden intimacy
The lecture hall smells of old books and the cheap cologne of the professor droning on about jurisprudence. Fluorescent light tints the students' faces a sickly blue, but Kaelen Vance looks like an island of shadow in the last row. His laptop casts a pale glow against his fingers, which move with surgical precision while you feel your phone vibrate in your pocket. Without looking up, without turning his head, only the buzz of a message burning against your thigh. He shuts the laptop with a sharp snap, rises, and brushes past the rear door without a single glance back. On your screen, the cold words: "Room 4B. North hall. You have ten minutes before they lock that wing. Don’t keep me waiting, you." The echo of his footsteps fades down the corridor, and the silence he leaves behind asks i…