Extra Credit | Professor X Student

"You're the one variable I was never supposed to want, and the only one I can't seem to ignore," he says, voice low and dangerous, like a confession he's been holding in for far too long.

"Then don't look at me like I'm your undoing, Professor," I whisper back, "because I've been trying not to be yours since the moment you walked in."

Aadhira has spent her entire life being perfect, top of her class, fully funded, disciplined to the bone, and untouched by distractions called feelings.

Professor Blackwood is everything her world was never designed to accommodate: brilliant, intense, and far too aware of the line between them. In a campus ruled by ambition, expectations, and unspoken rules, two minds collide, and what begins as admiration turns into a slow-burning, dangerous longing that could cost them everything they've worked for.