Unprofessional - I shouldn't want my own student
M. Silendali
When Professor Adrian Hale walks into his first seminar of the semester, he expects the usual—half-awake students, predictable questions, and the comfortable distance that has kept his life quiet and controlled for years.
He does not expect her.
Eden Marlowe, twenty-two, sharp-minded, quietly bold, and entirely uninterested in hiding the way she looks at him. She’s the kind of student who asks dangerous questions, the kind that sees right through a person’s façade. And Adrian feels himself unravel a little more every time their eyes meet.
He knows the rules.
He wrote half of them.
And Eden is the one person he has no business wanting.
But the pull between them is immediate—magnetic, unnerving, impossible to ignore. What begins as lingering glances and charged silences quickly spirals into something neither of them can pretend is innocent. Eden isn’t shy about testing boundaries, and Adrian isn’t nearly as composed as he pretends to be.
As lectures blur into tension-filled encounters and office hours turn into moments he can’t forget, the line between professional and forbidden thins… then threatens to disappear entirely.
The more Adrian tries to distance himself, the deeper he falls into the gravity of her presence.
The more Eden pushes, teases, and challenges him, the faster his restraint cracks.
In a world where reputation matters and consequences are real, they have to decide:
Is this obsession worth the risk?
Or will crossing the line cost them both more than they ever expected?