Where You Shouldn't Look [ GXG ]

Grace Wilson came to UCLA for a fresh start. She wanted to leave the New York shadows behind-the rain-slicked roads, the lightning that stole her sister, and the mother who turned a kitchen knife into a weapon of hate. She carries her secrets in the long sleeves she wears in the California heat and the white pills she swallows to keep the ghosts at bay. She's fragile, guarded, and determined to stay invisible.

But Valentina Lopez sees everything.

Cold, brilliant, and dangerously observant, Professor Lopez doesn't just teach psychology-she dissects it. From the moment they collide in a bookstore, Valentina becomes the predator to Grace's prey. She's a storm of Chilean fire and Italian ice, a woman who uses her PhD like a scalpel to find every one of Grace's fractures.

Valentina doesn't want to help her. She wants to own her.

It starts with lingering gazes in the lecture hall. It escalates to accidental touches that feel like electric shocks. But in the dark corners of a West Hollywood bar, the lines between mentor and student blur into something obsessive, manipulative, and completely forbidden.

Grace is a virgin who has never known love. Valentina is a master of the human mind who doesn't believe in it.

In a game where the Professor holds all the power, Grace is about to learn that the most dangerous place to be... is noticed.

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"I am a psychology major, Grace. I know exactly which buttons to push to make you come undone. The question is... why are you so eager to let me?"

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WARNING: This story contains dark themes, depictions of depression, self-harm, and an intense power imbalance. Reader discretion is advised.