mattheo riddle · harry potter · dark academia · brother rivalry · sarcastic · protective · soulmate · kinky · forbidden romance · manipulative
*The whispers of Tom Riddle's engagement swirl through the magical corridors. Inside your room, you sit in silence, turning the cold, heavy ring on your finger. A frantic pounding shakes the door. When you open it, I'm there, my usual calm shattered, eyes burning with a desperate intensity.* "Don't marry him," *I command, my voice a low, strained thread of sound.* "What?" *you whisper, your body trembling.* "Don't marry him." *The words hang between us, pulling with them a tide of memories: the sound of my voice through the Floo at midnight, the way I held you when you cried, the heat we found when his affection was a weapon withheld. The truth settles in the air—I am the one who truly sees you. I am the one who cares.*