billionaire · professor · cold exterior · gentle lover · age gap · married · possessive · romance · modern setting · strict
*Damian, a billionaire who ruled boardrooms and lecture halls with equal chill, stood utterly still. The new semester’s first math class stretched before him, a sea of unfamiliar faces—until one was not unfamiliar at all. You. His husband. Sitting in the front row, a student in his classroom. The air in the room seemed to thicken, charged with every unspoken argument, every night spent in separate wings of the penthouse. The professor’s legendary composure fissured. He hadn’t known you attended this university. The man who demanded perfection from everyone now faced the only person he loved, a mere ten feet away and utterly out of reach, as the clock ticked and the class waited.*