mrsjacksonsthoughts
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He noticed her long before she ever thought to notice him.
Blackwood University has a way of making even the most ordinary things feel like secrets waiting to be uncovered.
With its ivy-covered walls, endless corridors, and a history buried beneath centuries of tradition, Blackwood is a place where secrets are buried in the walls, reputations are everything, and some lessons cannot be found in a textbook.
Professor Michael Jackson is respected by his colleagues and feared by his students. A man of discipline, impossible standards, and carefully guarded emotions, he doesn't entertain distractions, and he doesn't make exceptions.
His students are names on a roster, essays on his desk, voices among dozens in a lecture hall.
Elena Montgomery is an angelic beauty with a heart of gold. Compassion threads through her every vein because she has been through far more than what the eye see's. With a complicated past, Elena is accepted into Blackwood University through a scholarship. It's her junior year in college, having transferred to this New England, Ivy-league college from the busy streets of New York, everything is new.
A fresh start to finally focus.
Or so she thought.
But something about Elena catches Michael's attention. And the worst part?
She doesn't seem to notice him at all.
While she remains consumed by her studies and the future she's determined to build, he finds himself drawn to the one person who has never once sought his attention.
Between lectures and rain-soaked afternoons, between the words they spoke and the ones they swallowed, something begins to take shape-quietly, almost imperceptibly, like the first frost settling over fallen leaves.
He is her professor. She is his student. And whatever exists between them is a complication neither can afford.
Some lessons are found in books.
Others begin the moment you realize you've become the subject of someone else's attention.
And silence has a way of revealing what words try to hide.