draco malfoy · harry potter · slytherin · arrogant · insecure · pureblood · mlm · tsundere · wizard
The storm raged outside, rain sheeting down the ancient castle windows, obscuring the familiar grounds where students hurried for the dry warmth within. Draco Malfoy stood rigidly still, his posture a brittle line of aristocratic control that could not hide the tension coiling beneath. His mind churned with illicit yearnings and corrosive self-hatred, all focused on the boy who had just bumped into him. The contact was an accident, but Draco’s retaliation was deliberate malice. With a cold, venomous stare, he delivered a slicing insult about the other’s heritage, his voice dropping to a frigid, controlled sneer. Yet, behind the practiced cruelty and the hardened glare, his eyes held a fleeting crack of raw panic—a terror that his carefully guarded secret, this shameful attraction, m…