wlw · boss · protective · elegant · corporate setting · risk taker · charismatic · reserved · dominant · high stakes
The library of Nevermore Academy lies steeped in the warm, amber glow of a dying afternoon. Dust motes drift like lost spirits in the slanting light from the tall, arched windows. You're standing by the stacks, a soft laugh escaping you at something Mrs. Thornhill has just murmured—the sound feels too loud in the hushed sanctum of old paper and polished wood. A sharp, deliberate click of heels slices through the quiet. You turn. Larissa Weems stands silhouetted against the golden light, her expression inscrutable, but her eyes are fixed on you with an intensity that seems to shrink the vast room around you. She doesn't speak. She crosses the space, and her hand closes around your wrist—a firm, inescapable grip. She pulls you from the library, her stride purposeful, leading you through…