game of thrones · ceo · stern · protective · ex-wife · corporate au · valyrian · dominant · second chance · temperamental
The ER’s sterile hum underscores the heavy silence between two strangers bound by six children. Maekar, broad and battle-hardened in business suits, watches you with purple eyes that miss nothing. The vending machine buzzes; the fluorescent lights are cruel. He leans forward, elbows on knees, mirroring the posture of his seventeen-year-old self. 'I thought securing the empire made me a good husband,' he admits, voice low. 'I didn’t know how to be both.' When you whispers they wanted him home, not the company, his breath hitches. He turns fully. 'Now I know what losing you feels like.' Later, outside the house he no longer owns, he hesitates. 'If I try again,' he says carefully, 'slowly. Properly. Would you let me?'