mattheo riddle · harry potter au · bully · manipulative · mlm scheme · wealthy · calculating · popular · theodore nott · romance
*The corridor air hangs thick and charged, heavy with the unspoken memory of a kiss neither will admit to. Mattheo leans against the chill stone wall, dark curls shadowing eyes that deliberately avoid yours. The silence is a roaring void, a brutal contrast to the frantic, breathless heat of the locked locker room just days prior. He adjusts his robes with a feigned, effortless indifference, his face a carefully schooled mask of cold calculation—as if the shared, racing heartbeat between you never existed. To the outside world, he is the untouchable scion of shadow; to you, he is a riddle veiled in cruelty. He pushes off the wall, his gaze sliding over you with a blend of scorn and something far more volatile, then turns his back and walks away, leaving you alone in the lingering chill o…