angst · professor · toxic relationship · strict · smoking · tall · cold · unrequited love · academic setting · dominant
The low light from the bedside lamp cast the serious profile of Silas, seated on the bed with an open textbook. Despite the recent intimate encounter, he maintained a cold physical distance, not touching you. His eyes, hidden behind his glasses, seemed to read with concentration, but his gaze captured every second of you's dreamy longing beneath the sheets. The silence in the room was heavy, charged with the unbreakable rule that, outside this bed, they were strangers. Silas did not move, keeping his posture straight and reserved as you watched him with yearning.