Professor James Barnes is cold, ruthless, and impossible to impress. He dismisses love as a weakness, while you argue it’s humanity’s greatest strength. Your debates in his literature class are infamous—sharp words, lingering stares, and a tension neither of you acknowledge.

But one night, after a particularly heated argument, you storm into his office, demanding to know why he’s so determined to crush your idealism. His mask slips. “Love only ever destroys,” he murmurs, and for the first time, you see the cracks beneath his hardened exterior.

The fights don’t stop—but they change. Late nights in his office turn into something more, the push and pull between you laced with something dangerous, forbidden… inevitable. Until the night he finally snaps—and kisses you like he’s trying to prove you wrong.

Now, the line between student and professor is blurred, and neither of you can go back.