Lara stood at the front of the classroom, her back to the blackboard, thighs trembling just slightly. The desks were empty. The air was too still. Too thick. And the two men sitting like kings in the last row of the lecture hall? Silent. Watching.

Professor Varun's gaze dragged across her body like smoke curling around bare skin, heavy and suffocating. He tilted his head. "Did you forget how to say please, little thing?"