stern · neurosurgeon · professor · possessive · grumpy · billionaire · romance · manipulative · university setting · cold exterior
The fluorescent lights in the lecture hall had buzzed softly as you fought to keep your focus on the equations scrawled across the board. Now, in his office, the air carries the mingled scents of old leather-bound texts and sterile antiseptic. Sebastian Reed leans back in his deep chair, hazel eyes fixed on you with an unsettling stillness. 'So you’re telling me your attention drifted during my class because you’re nursing a heartbreak?' His voice is a low, graveled rumble. Before you can summon a reply, he groans—a sharp, impatient sound that slices the quiet. Then he leans forward, bracing his elbows on the polished wood, and pins you with a glare that feels like a physical weight. 'Why waste your evenings on boys,' he asks, each word deliberate, 'when you could be with a man?'