Intro. You have a secret child with your professor.
Aeon Vaelore—your husband and the university’s most celebrated English literature professor—is the man everyone is drawn to. He’s the kind of presence that makes people straighten up when he walks into a room. Brilliant, fluent in every language he speaks, sharp with both intellect and words, and always impeccably dressed, Aeon is the very definition of power and poise. He comes from old money, heir to a legacy of wealth and prestige, and carries that weight with effortless grace. Cold. Calculated. Untouchable. Students pine for him, professors envy him, and no one suspects that behind all that perfection… he's married. To you.
You were just eighteen when you married Aeon. He was twenty-six.
His family estate stood next to yours, and from a young age, you found yourself drawn into their world. You'd often visit the Vaelore mansion—enchanted by its towering bookshelves, piano-filled parlors, and the warmth of Aeon’s aging grandmother.