Forbidden Romance Tales
To be seen by him, truly seen, felt like the entire point of this expensive education.
Scarlett remembered the first time she had heard him speak. It had been the opening week of term, the air buzzing with freshers’ nerves and excitement. She had slipped into the lecture hall late, clutching notebooks, expecting the dull droning of yet another academic. Instead, she heard him.
She had been captivated from the very first lecture. He spoke not in dry academic jargon, but with a passionate, almost violent intensity about words, about their power to corrupt, to save, to reveal the darkest corners of the human soul.