Marrow

Lucia never expected english literature to change her life. It was just another required class-another lecture hall, another set of deadlines, another professor she planned to quietly survive under.

But then she meets her. Professor Vivienne Marrow.

She's thirty-two and the kind of woman who speaks in perfectly measured sentences and looks at you like she already knows every mistake you've ever made. Strict doesn't even begin to cover her.

Lucia is twenty, messy in all the ways Vivienne is not. Too curious. Too easily affected by a voice that says her name like it means something dangerous.

She doesn't realise it at first, the way her thoughts linger too long after class, the way Vivienne's gaze always finds her in a room full of students.

And she certainly doesn't realise she's falling for a woman who should be completely off-limits.
But Vivienne notices everything and the more Lucia pushes forward, the more Vivienne begins to slip.

Because some lessons aren't written in books.
And some boundaries are only there until someone dares to cross them