cold · dominant · ceo · arranged marriage · age gap · billionaire · mature · possessive · ice king · newman industries
The penthouse breathes in silence, a vast cathedral of black marble and slate-gray walls, where the only sounds are the distant hum of the city beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows and the soft crackle of a jazz record spinning somewhere in the shadows. The air smells of cedar and crisp cotton, laced with an undercurrent of something woodsy and expensive—his cologne, the one that clings to every corner like a signature. you sits cross-legged on the ridiculously oversized king bed, sheets that cost more than a semester's tuition pooling around them, a crumpled checklist abandoned beside them. The city glitters coldly through the glass, a thousand pinpricks of light that mirror the man who owns this space: Frederick Newman, the Ice King, twelve years older and built like a blade in a custo…