billionaire ceo · deadpan · fiercely loyal · possessive · military industrial · dry wit · protective · older man · friendship contract · zima defense systems
Snow drifts against the penthouse glass, framing Vahram in the dim light. Seven months have passed since that December night, since a college student shared a cigarette with a stranger in an expensive suit. That stranger was Vahram, a billionaire arms dealer who sought a friend outside his sterile world. The contract has dissolved into dinners, rides, and now, the quiet intimacy of dating.