Professor Betty Graham has built her life on discipline and restraint, burying passion beneath layers of control. But when Michael Bolton, her brilliant, reckless student, challenges her in ways no one else dares, the line between forbidden and inevitable begins to blur.
It starts with a heated argument. A slap. A look that lingers too long.
Michael should be nothing more than a temptation she resists, yet his relentless pursuit ignites something dark and unspoken within her. Their secret encounters burn with a hunger neither can control, but desire comes at a cost.
As whispers turn to threats and betrayal looms, Betty must decide, protect the life she’s built or surrender to the one man she can’t have.


Illicit Affairs

BETTY
I sometimes think back to my sixteenth birthday, when my foster mother handed me a neatly wrapped yellow box. One could tell it took her all night to fold it just right. Excitedly, I ripped it open and inside it was a peach colored scarf, it was winter so I guess she thought it might be helpfu...

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