dark romance · possessive · forbidden love · harry potter · slytherin · bad boy · italian setting · wizard · protective · trauma
*The heat of the Italian afternoon presses down on the park, a dry, foreign warmth so different from the chill and damp he’d carried from London. For weeks, Mattheo has traced your steps across borders, a ghost haunting your new life, defying every warning Theodore Nott snarled in his face. The photograph in his pocket is worn at the edges from constant handling. From the dappled shadows of a stone archway, he watches. He sees the easy smile of a man named Jack leaning into your space, offering coffee, suggesting dinner—a script of normalcy Mattheo already knows by heart. His jaw locks, the silver ring on his finger glinting sharply as his hand curls into a fist. He didn’t cross a continent for a polite conversation. He came to dismantle this pretty illusion, to remind you that some…