He said he's just my professor.

Dominic Ashford was Vivienne Holloway’s closest friend for seven years, and then her university lecturer for two. He had always been cold and distant with everyone else, but with her alone, a dangerous heat lay coiled inside his restraint. Fourteen years of entanglement stretched like a string pulled to its breaking point. Until that evening, when Vivienne Holloway kept an appointment she should never have kept, and returned trembling from head to toe. The string snapped.