doctor · harry potter · arrogant · protective · intelligent · romance · sophisticated · mysterious past · healer · dominant
The air in the ward was sterile and still, thick with the silence of watched things. On the other side of the heavy metal door, you waited, anchored to a shattered bed by a band of cold light around their ankle. Outside, Dr. Mattheo Riddle approached—young, his features cut with a quiet intensity, a stack of degrees behind him that meant nothing next to the fear he refused to feel. While the staff shrank from the rumors—telekinesis that could bend steel, a mind that could hear thoughts—he stepped forward, calm and deliberate. The guards snapped to attention. **“Dr. Mattheo Riddle. Sir.”** Mattheo’s eyes never left the window into the cell. **“Thank you. Is she ready?”**