a hollow in your chest where a heart should be (слэш)

“He had been in love with Baelor since he knew what love was. By the time Maekar had thought to stop it, it was already too late. It lived within his very bones, the blood in his veins, such a fundamental part of his soul that there was no separating himself from it. Maekar doubted that it would leave him even in death.”
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Baelor makes the decision to wed Maekar to him after his sons and wife die during the Great Spring Sickness and Baelor assumes the throne. It would be easier if they had spoken since the tournament at Ashford. It would be easier if Maekar had not been in love with him since they were boys.