When Laura Westwood moves to a new town, she hopes for only one thing: peace. She wants to work, avoid attention, and finally cut herself off from the past no one here needs to know about. The new school is supposed to be the place where she can finally draw all her boundaries herself - clearly, simply, without gaps. But reality doesn't follow the plan. Especially when her quiet, distant demeanor starts to spark curiosity, and while trying to run from her own emotions, she crosses paths with someone who can bring them out of her far too easily. Demeter Schalke has something Laura notices from the very first lessons - a hypersensitivity, stubbornness, a need to be seen. Something she should ignore. Something that slowly becomes the only thing she can't ignore anymore. The boundaries Laura sets with such precision begin to shift. Not suddenly. Not dramatically. But through small gestures, conversations, moments no one else sees - moments that grow heavier week by week. Both of them try to keep a safe distance: Demeter - because she doesn't know what to do with the attachment growing inside her. Laura - because she knows all too well how dangerous it can be to step into someone else's life.

Aria has spent most of her life hiding behind quiet words, half-formed thoughts, and invisible walls. At twenty-three, after the culmination of years of family pressure, inner doubts, and unspoken pain, she finds herself admitted to a mental health clinic. It is here, among sterile corridors and muted light, that she begins to confront what she has long avoided: herself. Dr. Anya Suriya is assigned to guide her through the difficult work of healing. Calm, intelligent, and empathetic, Anya represents both authority and refuge. Aria struggles at first to speak, to trust, to believe that anyone could hold her fragility without breaking it. But slowly, carefully, a connection forms subtle, tender, charged with emotions Aria has never allowed herself to feel. As therapy sessions unravel years of trauma and silence, Aria begins to discover something deeper: that healing is not just surviving pain, but learning to live in it; that love is not just an external comfort, but a reflection of how she can embrace herself. Where Love Meets Silence is a poignant and intimate journey of trauma, self-discovery, and forbidden romance a story about how the heart learns to heal while daring to trust again.

Professor x Student | wlw | Age Gap | Genius Girl x Academic Enigma Maya is a brilliant mind with a past her memory chose to bury. She's eighteen, but she's not starting college-she's wrapping up her Master of Science in Quantum Physics. She enrolled at fourteen, a prodigy who moved through equations, theories, and sterile labs where everything made sense except, maybe, herself. Her focus is fixed on the path ahead-a PhD, more research, more certainty. But that fragile balance begins to shift after one unexpected encounter. During a routine session with her therapist, she meets a woman who, without warning, walks back into her life as a professor in a class Maya was never supposed to attend. Coincidence, consequence, or something else entirely? Quantum physics doesn't offer answers for the way a soul trembles. This is a story of blurred boundaries and buried memories, of forbidden tension and the quiet gravity between two women on opposite sides of a classroom. A slow burn. An ethical tightrope. An impossible pull that feels just as chaotic, just as precise, as the laws that govern the universe itself. Tags: • Mommy issues • Slow burn • Mental health struggles • Professor x student • 26-year age gap #7 teacherstudent

Stephanie Walker is eighteen, moving across the country from Los Angeles to New York to begin her dream: law school at NYU. A new city, a new home, new friends, new everything. She's excited, but sleepless nights, old wounds, and quiet struggles follow her everywhere. She wants to live like any other college student, to blend in, to feel normal, but life hasn't been simple, and surviving on her own is harder than she expected. Every late night, every study session, every solitary drive home reminds her that life doesn't come with easy answers. Some nights, she leans on quiet habits she'd never tell anyone about, just to make it to morning. Elena Shay is thirty-two, NYU's Dean and a respected law professor. Her life is built on control, precision, and endless responsibility. At work, she's commanding, elegant, untouchable. Outside it, she's soft, warm, and human, but never careless. Elena doesn't date casually; she doesn't waste time or energy on anything that isn't worth it. She's deliberate, certain, and careful... Until Stephanie. Stephanie isn't just another student. She's sharp, captivating, and unafraid to be herself in a way that draws Elena in deeper than it should. Suddenly, the carefully maintained line between professional and personal life begins to blur. The rules, the expectations, the life Elena's worked so hard to control all scream that nothing between them can ever happen. And yet, the pull becomes impossible to ignore. As their worlds collide, Stephanie discovers a side of life she's never dared to touch: warmth, comfort, attention, and desire from someone who sees her fully, not as a girl with a "rough" childhood, but as a woman. Together, Elena and Stephanie fall into chaos, vulnerability, and longing they didn't know they were missing. Every glance, every touch, and every moment carries risk. Risk of exposure, of judgment, of everything crashing down, all shaped by the choices resting in their hands.

"𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙢𝙮 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙮. 𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙙, 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙮 𝙢𝙚." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Born into fame. Forced into the spotlight. When her mother's fashion empire falls into scandal, 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐤 is automatically involved, and her image is on the line. 𝐒𝐤𝐲𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐞 is a cold, powerful attorney, hired to silence the scandal and control London. But some entanglements blur the line between control and desire. And not all of them are meant to be undone.

| slow burn | professor x professor | age gap | Sienna Raynes is the newest member of staff at Coryton house. Will the young professor find her feet and inspire a love for literature or will she stumble? One person gets to find out as the new english profressor is assigned a mentor... The sharp tongued head of music Miss Elizabeth Herrod. Will her icy greetings and fierce opinions unnerve her young mentee or will they get past their initial meeting? Dive into a slow burn romance full of tension, teasing and yearning. Yes there's an age gap, yes she's an older woman and yes it's messy. All the delicious ingredients we know and love ❤️

"Did I seriously just turn five again?" DISCLAIMER: This story is written entirely in Taglish and may contain typographical and grammatical errors. The story explores sapphic themes of identity, longing, and emotional connection. 𝑽𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒚𝒂 𝑳𝒖𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏 𝑹𝒖𝒆𝒅𝒂 didn't grow up with an easy life. She experienced silent suffering - abuse, confusion, and loneliness - and had to grow up too fast. She put up walls to protect herself and lost her way at times, but she always found the strength to choose the right path. Architecture became not just a goal, but her true home. Just as she was about to graduate, an accident sent her back into her five-year-old body. Old traumas returned - but now, she must decide. Will she break, or rise and use her pain to her advantage? Over time, she accepted that everything felt like a dream. Along the way, she met 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆 𝑪𝒆́𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆 𝑳𝒆𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒓, her teacher's daughter who was about six years older. But when they met, Camille turned out to be rude and mean whenever her father wasn't around. "Just who the hell are you in my life!" "Your beautiful nightmare." Come and join the journey of young Vireya, a child with the rare chance to reshape the course of her life? Date started: 02-22-25 Ended:

Andrea Blaire Ashford, 26 - a professor who is smart, strict, and always in control. She doesn't smile often and keeps her distance, making her both respected and feared by her students. Kiera Estelle Del Fierro, 21 - a Biology student who thought her life was simple and already planned. But everything changes when her world starts to collide with Andrea's. What begins as simple respect slowly turns into something deeper. Long talks, stolen moments, and feelings that are harder to ignore each day "If this is wrong, then why does it feel like the only thing that's ever been right?"

loving her until my last breath

Adrienne Danielle Toussaint. All her life she dreamt of living peacefully, far from the empire that was built for her. Until painful occurrences changed her once soft demeanour. She became a daredevil and had her fair share of women. But what if her light came back? Circe Sherrine Floquet. A serious and straight forward Professor at HU for three years. She's also known for her spectacular mind and alluring beauty. Life has taken a toll over her four years ago. She became cold and distant and built her walls far too high. But she was shaken up once again when she met those familiar gray green eyes in her class .. as one of her students. Date Published/Started: July 29, 2023 Date Finished: *.* Note: This is a taglish book.