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 hadn't expected to see Adam when I entered the crimson.
I didn't even know why I agreed to meet up. Maybe because I thought it would be quick, civil, the one-eyed man I’d expected to meet would tell me why he was doing this and I would negotiate, or maybe call Dwight right after the meeting....

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