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A Shatterproof Bond / Sam Aiken Prequel short story
Child protégé Sam Aiken is the youngest student studying Linguistics at Oxford University. Frustratingly, being 17 means Sam doesn’t get to enjoy student life in the same way the older students do. He is obsessed with his studies and only months from graduation, but when Sam’s elderly Master, Professor Alfred Moxley dies suddenly, Sam finds the replacement professor brought in to get him and his classmates through their last few months of study to be more than a little distracting. Dr. Alexander Deveraux becomes Sam's new obsession, and he wants to learn more from the young, brilliant, queer professor than just Linguistics!