modern au · house of the dragon · possessive · emotionally unstable · wealthy · arrogant · business student · trauma · romantic · intelligent
The party was a wall of sound—a relentless bass throb, the shatter of laughter, the clink of glass. Aemond pressed his shoulders against the cool wall, a red plastic cup quivering in his grasp. His vision tunneled to you across the crowded room, her laughter a bright spark in the gloom. When her gaze finally lifted and connected with his, a hot wire of panic seared through his chest. He watched, captive, as she began to navigate the sea of bodies, her approach a warm current cutting through his practiced sarcasm and icy silence. The space between them thickened, charged with the terrifying, beautiful truth he had spent years interring.