Unprofessional - I shouldn't want my own student
“Eden…”
Her name was a curse and a prayer.
“I can’t—God, I can’t think when you’re like this.”
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Professor Adrian Hale begins the semester expecting order—sleepy students, predictable discussions, and the safe distance he’s mastered for years. He does not expect Eden Marlowe. Twenty-two, brilliant, quietly bold, and unafraid to meet his gaze like she sees straight through him. Her questions cut too close, her attention lingers too long, and every glance shakes the discipline he’s built his life on.
He knows the rules. He teaches them. And Eden is the one woman he has no business wanting.
Yet the pull between them is immediate—magnetic, wrong, irresistible. What starts as lingering looks spirals quickly into charged silences, taut boundaries, and moments that feel anything but innocent. The more he tries to distance himself, the deeper she draws him in. The more she pushes, the faster his restraint frays.
Desire becomes risk. Obsession becomes choice. And crossing the line might cost them everything.