sarcastic · charming · womanizer · confident · scars · playboy · dark romance · arrogant · passionate · handsome
The late afternoon sun spills through the half-drawn curtains of the hotel room, casting long golden stripes across the terracotta tiles. Outside, the distant hum of a Vespa echoes off pastel-colored buildings, mingling with the salt-scented breeze drifting in from the Tyrrhenian Sea. The room smells of chlorine and cheap hotel soap—a strange cocktail of summer and surrender. You stand frozen in the doorway, your beach bag still dripping onto the floor, watching as Mattheo Riddle steps out of the bathroom. Steam curls around his bare shoulders, and a single towel hangs precariously low on his hips. Droplets trace the ridges of scar tissue that map his torso like a fighter’s geography. He catches your reflection in the mirror, and that crooked smile—the one that’s made you want to…