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Chapter 9

Author: Ava Sterling
last update publish date: 2026-10-25 22:52:21

The email arrived on a Tuesday morning while Gabriel was still in bed, Maya’s scent still on his sheets.

Subject line: *Confidential – Faculty Conduct Concern*

He opened it with steady hands that felt like they belonged to someone else.

Dr. Lena Voss had formally requested a meeting with the department chair. She cited “concerning patterns of private interaction” between Professor Hart and a current undergraduate student in his seminar. She attached timestamps. She mentioned seeing the stud
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  • Forbidden Lust: My Father-in-law   Chapter 10

    Eleven days. That was how long Maya took before she broke. She stopped going to his seminar. She submitted the final paper through the portal and never looked at the grade. She told her roommate she was fine. She was not fine. She slept in pieces, woke up reaching for a body that wasn’t there, and spent entire afternoons staring at the same paragraph without absorbing a single word. Gabriel looked worse. She saw him once across the quad, walking with the department chair. His face was thinner. The careful control he used to wear like armor had cracks in it now. When their eyes met for half a second he looked away first, like the sight of her physically hurt. That night she stood outside his building at 12:10 a.m. with her heart slamming against her ribs. The light in the high window was on. She pressed the buzzer. A long silence. Then the intercom crackled. “Maya.” His voice sounded ruined. “Go home.” “No.” Another silence, longer this time. She heard him breathe once, sha

  • Forbidden Lust: My Father-in-law   Chapter 9

    The email arrived on a Tuesday morning while Gabriel was still in bed, Maya’s scent still on his sheets. Subject line: *Confidential – Faculty Conduct Concern* He opened it with steady hands that felt like they belonged to someone else. Dr. Lena Voss had formally requested a meeting with the department chair. She cited “concerning patterns of private interaction” between Professor Hart and a current undergraduate student in his seminar. She attached timestamps. She mentioned seeing the student leave his residence at an early hour. She stopped just short of an outright accusation, but the implication was surgical. Gabriel read it twice. Then he set the phone face-down on the nightstand and stared at the ceiling until the light changed. He didn’t text Maya. He went to campus early and requested an immediate meeting with the chair. By noon the conversation was over. No formal investigation yet. A quiet, careful warning. Distance himself from the student in question. Avoid any appe

  • Forbidden Lust: My Father-in-law   Chapter 8

    Gabriel found out before lunch. Maya had texted him only three words from the bathroom of the English building: *She saw me.* He didn’t answer. He didn’t need to. When she walked into the afternoon seminar he was already there, standing at the front of the room with a stack of papers in his hands, face carefully blank. He never looked at her once during the entire two hours. When class ended he said, “Miss Reyes, stay behind,” in the same flat voice he used for everyone else. The other students filed out. The door clicked shut. Gabriel waited until the hallway sounds faded. Then he turned. “Tell me exactly what happened.” She did. Every detail. The early hour. The coffee. The way Lena’s eyes had moved from Maya’s face to the loft building and back again. The small smile. When she finished, Gabriel leaned both hands on the desk and stared down at the wood like it might give him a different future. “She’s going to use it,” he said quietly. “Maybe not tomorrow. Maybe not next w

  • Forbidden Lust: My Father-in-law   Chapter 7

    They fell into a rhythm that should have terrified them. Three nights a week Maya walked the long way to his building after dark. She never took the same route twice. He never texted first. The only signal was the light left on in the high window of the loft. If it was dark, she kept walking. If it glowed, she pressed the buzzer and waited for the soft click of the lock. Inside, the rules were simple and absolute. No talking about class. No talking about the future. No leaving marks where anyone could see. They broke the last rule constantly. Tonight the light was on. Gabriel opened the door before she finished knocking. He looked at her for a long second like he was still deciding whether to send her away. Then he stepped aside. The moment the door shut he had her against it, mouth on hers, hands already under her coat. He kissed her like he had been thinking about it all day and hated himself for it. She answered the same way. They didn’t make it to the bed at first. He st

  • Forbidden Lust: My Father-in-law   Chapter 6

    Maya didn’t see him for four days. He didn’t cancel class. He just became a different man in it. Cold. Precise. He looked through her when she spoke. When he handed back the next set of papers, his fingers never brushed hers. The feedback on her story was sharp and impersonal, like it had been written by a stranger who happened to share his name. She told herself she could live with it. She lasted until Thursday night. At 11:40 she stood outside the converted loft building three blocks from campus, phone heavy in her hand. She had walked here without deciding to. The buzzer had his last name beside it in clean black letters. She pressed it before she could talk herself out of it. Silence. Then the intercom crackled. “Maya.” Her name sounded like it hurt him to say. “Go home.” “No.” A long pause. She heard him exhale, the sound rough and defeated. The door clicked open. His loft was all high ceilings and shadowed corners, one wide window looking out over the quiet street. A

  • Forbidden Lust: My Father-in-law   Chapter 5

    Gabriel cancelled office hours. He graded her revised story with clinical distance and sent the feedback through the department portal instead of speaking to her. In seminar he looked everywhere except at the third row. He told himself the desk had been a moment of catastrophic weakness and that it would never happen again. It was a lie he almost believed until Maya walked into the empty classroom after the last student left on Friday. She closed the door. He was erasing the board. The chalk dust still hung in the air when he turned and saw her. “No,” he said immediately, voice low and hard. “Whatever you’re about to say—no.” Maya didn’t move from the door. Her pulse was visible at her throat. She looked like she hadn’t slept either. “You made me come on your desk,” she said quietly, “and then you told me to leave like I was the one who started it.” His jaw flexed. “I am your professor.” “You were my professor when your fingers were inside me.” The words hit him like a physi

  • Forbidden Lust: My Father-in-law   Chapter 5

    Bella lay wide awake in the dark, staring at the ceiling fan spinning slowly above her. Julian’s soft snores filled the room, steady and peaceful, like nothing in the world could touch him. She turned her head slightly and looked at him. His face looked so calm, so innocent in sleep. The same face

  • Forbidden Lust: My Father-in-law   Chapter 4

    "But he didn’t buy me any… then who did he buy it for?Bella sat on the edge of the bed, staring at Julian’s phone until the screen went dark. The words on that receipt kept flashing in her mind — sheer black lace, crotchless, garter straps, over a thousand dollars. She felt a sharp sting behind he

  • Forbidden Lust: My Father-in-law   Chapter 3

    Bella woke up with a heavy weight pressing on her chest. Sunlight filtered through the curtains, casting a soft glow across the bedroom. Julian was still asleep beside her, his arm loosely draped over her waist. For a moment, she stared at his peaceful face, guilt twisting sharply in her stomach.L

  • Forbidden Lust: My Father-in-law   Chapter 2

    "Bella,what are you doing?" jax asked shocked.Bella’s heart slammed against her ribs so violently she thought she might faint. She yanked the blanket up to her chin with trembling hands, but it was useless. Jax had already seen everything.She was mortified.“Jax… I…” Her voice cracked. She could

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