I spent years convinced I’d never burn for anyone—Until Noah Ryan set me ablaze. Five years of sharing an office with the most confident professor on campus, and I kept my walls sky-high. No complications. Just lectures, grading, and quiet friendship. Then one kiss in a supply closet cracked me wide open. Now I can’t stop fantasizing about his mouth on me, his body teaching mine every filthy thing it’s been missing. I’ve never been with a man. I’ve barely been with anyone. But Noah’s loyal patience and sinful promises have me aching to learn it all—with him. He swears he’s okay with taking it slow, that he wants to show me exactly who I am and how perfect we can be. But when I discover who his ex is, old fears crash in hard. Am I just the inexperienced fling to pass his time until he finds someone more his caliber? Or will the only man who’s ever made me desperate to be touched finally prove I’m not enough—and walk away for good?