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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐎𝐑'𝐒 𝐆𝐈𝐑𝐋 🌸
Cora Addams is 21, hopelessly in love, and completely, utterly ignored.
Well not ignored. Rejected. Repeatedly. Creatively.
She's tried everything. Handwritten letters slipped under office doors. Flowers left on desks with no name attached (okay, one time she signed it). She's memorized the professor's coffee order, her office hours, the exact way she says "Ms. Addams" like it's a warning and an apology at the same time.
Because Ashley Walker : 28, brilliant, infuriatingly composed Biology professor keeps saying no.
I don't like you that way, Cora.
This can't happen.
Please stop.
So Cora stops. All of it. The letters, the flowers, the soft "good morning, Professor" in the hallway. She pulls back completely and that's when Ashley realizes the truth she's been running from since the first letter landed on her desk,
She never stopped wanting her. She was just terrified of what wanting her would cost.
A career. A reputation. Maybe everything.
Now Ashley has to figure out how to undo months of pushing away the one person she couldn't stop thinking about before Cora decides she's done waiting for a woman who'll never choose her back.
Some love stories start with yes. This one starts with every kind of no.
gxg | slow burn | age gap | forbidden student-professor tension | professor x student