Booked Solid by My Tutor

MM College Romance
by Chase Power

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Pairing: MM
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Tutor/Student, Praise Kink, Age Gap, Forbidden Romance, Dark Academia, No-Kissing Rule, Touch Starved, Control/Surrender, Hurt/Comfort

A failing pre-med student sells his body to his genius tutor for private study sessions — only to discover the man addicted to controlling him is the only one who truly believes in him.

Ethan Park is one bad grade away from losing everything — his pre-med track, his scholarship, and the future his parents sacrificed their whole lives for. When the university assigns him mandatory tutoring with the department’s most ruthless TA, he expects brutal study sessions and zero mercy.

Cassian Ward is the kind of brilliant that makes other people feel small. PhD candidate, published researcher, and the guy who’s never once bent a rule — until Ethan Park shows up desperate, mouthy, and willing to do anything to pass.

The deal is simple: private sessions, total secrecy, and Ethan compensates Cassian in the only currency he thinks he’s worth. No kissing. No feelings. No exceptions.

But Cassian’s “no kissing” rule cracks a little more every time Ethan falls apart in his hands. And Ethan’s starting to realize the praise that wrecks him in the bedroom is the same voice that tells him he’s smart enough to do this on his own.

When an anonymous complaint puts them both under investigation, they’ll have to decide what’s worth more — the arrangement that’s kept them sane, or the thing growing between them that could ruin everything.

You’ll love this book if you enjoy:

✅ Praise-addicted student x touch-starved genius tutor
✅ “No kissing” rule that was DOOMED from the start
✅ Study sessions that are definitely not just studying
✅ Slow burn that EXPLODES (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — graphic, explicit, emotional)
✅ Dark academia vibes: locked offices, late-night labs, library tension
✅ A hero who earns every grade and a love interest who learns to let go
✅ HEA guaranteed

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⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MM scenes), strong language, academic pressure, financial hardship, and depictions of anxiety and self-doubt. Intended for readers 18+.

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Chapter One: Probation

The number stared back at me like a middle finger.

Forty-seven percent.

I’d seen bad grades before. I’d gotten cozy with the low end of the curve since freshman year, flirting with C-minuses the way some guys flirted with bartenders — recklessly, knowing it would end badly, doing it anyway. But forty-seven wasn’t a bad grade. Forty-seven was a fucking catastrophe. Forty-seven was the academic equivalent of showing up to a gunfight with a pool noodle.

I sat on the wooden bench outside Professor Chen’s office, staring at the score on my phone screen until the numbers blurred. The hallway smelled like industrial cleaner and broken dreams.

BIO 301: Molecular and Cellular Biology. The weed-out course. The one every pre-med student whispered about like it was a war zone, which it was, except the casualties didn’t get purple hearts. They got academic probation letters and disappointed parents.

The door opened. Professor Chen — small, silver-streaked hair pulled into a ruthless bun, reading glasses on a chain around her neck — looked at me the way an ER doctor might look at a patient who’d done something spectacularly stupid to themselves.

“Mr. Park. Come in.”

“I’ll be direct,” she said. “Your midterm score was forty-seven percent. Your current course average is a fifty-nine. You need a seventy or above on every remaining assessment, including the final, to pass this class.”

She let that land. It landed like a cinder block on my chest.

“The department offers intensive tutoring for students in academic difficulty. I’m assigning you to one of our graduate teaching assistants. Cassian Ward. He runs the supplemental sessions for BIO 301 and has the highest student success rate of any TA in the department.”

“You’re not stupid, Ethan.”

“This is your runway, Mr. Park. It’s not very long. Use it wisely.”

I went to my room and sat on my laptop. I typed “Cassian Ward biochemistry” into the search bar before I could talk myself out of it. Sharp jaw, dark hair, wire-rimmed glasses. He was looking directly at the camera with the kind of expression that said he had somewhere better to be.

And then, buried near the bottom of his reviews: “Unfairly hot for someone that mean. I literally cannot focus during his review sessions because of those forearms.” — 4 stars.

Cassian Ward. Published researcher. Department prodigy. Allegedly terrifying. Allegedly attractive. My tutor.

I was so fucked.

And at the head of the table, Cassian Ward. He was taller than his photo suggested. Leaner, too — not thin, exactly, but efficient. Like everything about him had been optimized for function over comfort. Dark button-down with the sleeves pushed up to his elbows, revealing forearms that immediately validated the Rate My Professor review.

Gray. His eyes were gray. Not blue-gray or green-gray — gray, like steel, like storm clouds, like the color of a sky that was deciding whether to rain or not.

“You’re not a lost cause, Park. You’re a structural problem. Structural problems have solutions.”

All I could think about was the way Cassian Ward had looked at me. Not with pity. Not with contempt. With something worse. Interest. Like I was a problem he was deciding whether to solve.

I pulled my jacket tighter, ducked my head against the cold, and walked home to start the forty-seven problems I probably couldn’t finish, for the man who’d said I wasn’t a lost cause, in a voice that made me want to believe him.

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