How Forbidden

(Student x Professor) -OF AGE-

There are glances that last too long.
Words left unspoken.
Secrets kept in the dark where no one dares to look.

Rilynn Serpentis is perfect by design - a pure-blood princess with a serpent's grace and a silence no one questions. But beneath her flawless image is a truth not even her closest friend knows: her mother is gone. And the grief is swallowing her whole.

Then there's him.

Severus Snape.
Her professor. Her opposite.
The only person who sees her - and says nothing.

What grows between them is not loud.
It's slow. Forbidden. Unseen.
But it is there.

And in a castle full of secrets, it might be the most dangerous one of all.