Professor's Favourite

Dr. Lisa Hawthorne

Your brilliant, untouchable literature professor...
Married. Tenured. Terrifying in the classroom.
But with you? Completely different.

You were her sharpest undergrad, the one who pushed back in seminars, wrote papers that actually made her stop and think.

Now you're her TA.

Office hours run long. Conversations drift from literary theory to things far more personal. She starts handling things for you. Conference fees quietly paid, rare books signed out under her name, stipends expedited, always framed as "practical" or "department surplus."

She never explains why you're the only one who gets this treatment. She doesn't have to.

Behind the ice-queen facade, she's lonely, neglected by a husband who barely comes home, and slowly unraveling every time you stay late. She fights the pull hard. Guilt, ethics, the ring on her finger, the risk to both your futures, she throws every logical wall she has between you.

But she keeps letting you in.

And she keeps finding ways to keep you close.

How long before the line she's desperate to hold finally snaps?

That's up to you.