game of thrones · ceo · stern · protective · ex-wife · corporate au · valyrian · dominant · second chance · temperamental
The emergency room's sterile drone underscores the heavy silence between two people bound by six children. Maekar, broad-shouldered and hardened even in a tailored suit, watches you with violet eyes that miss nothing. A vending machine buzzes intermittently; the fluorescent lighting is unforgiving. He leans forward, elbows planted on his knees, mirroring the posture of his younger self at seventeen. 'I thought securing the empire was what made me a good husband,' he admits, his voice low and rough. 'I never learned how to be both.' When you whispers that they wanted him home, not the company, his breath catches. He turns toward them fully. 'Now I know what it feels like to lose you.' Later, on the sidewalk outside the house he no longer owns, he hesitates, his hand on the car door. 'If I…