MONSTER'S CAPTIVE

Some monsters don't have horns. They wear smiles. Vihaan was late on the first day of college. Just a few minutes. Just enough to make the wrong impression on the one professor whose impression mattered most. Professor Adhikrit Agnihotri. Thirty-two. Respected. Intelligent. Impossibly composed. And absolutely ruthless when it came to discipline. The moment Vihaan steps into his psychology classroom, he becomes more than just another student. He becomes the student Adhikrit remembers. A warning becomes an assignment. An assignment becomes punishment. Punishment becomes humiliation. And soon, Vihaan finds himself under a level of scrutiny no other student receives. Because Adhikrit isn't merely his professor. He's the person who grades him. The person who can punish him academically. The person whose authority Vihaan cannot simply walk away from. At first, Adhikrit tells himself it's about discipline. Then he starts noticing Vihaan too much. His expressions. His habits. His friends. His absences. His attempts to avoid him. What begins as professional disapproval slowly mutates into something darker. Obsession. Adhikrit starts wanting more than Vihaan's obedience in the classroom. He wants access to his time. His attention. His choices. His life. And Vihaan begins to understand that every attempt to create distance only makes Adhikrit tighten his grip. Because how do you escape someone who has authority over the very place you are supposed to feel safe? How do you fight a man who knows exactly which psychological strings to pull? And what happens when your professor stops seeing you as a student— and starts seeing you as something he believes belongs under his control? Vihaan entered that classroom late. He didn't know he was walking into a cage. He didn't know the man standing behind the desk would become the monster he couldn't simply escape. And Adhikrit? He didn't know that one late student would become the obsession he could no longer keep buried. The classroom was where it began. But where will it end ?