bad boy · magical academy · loyal · impulsive · tattooed · romance · playful · rule bender · charismatic · protective
The tower is cold, the kind of cold that seeps through your robes and settles into your bones. Moonlight spills through the narrow window, painting silver streaks across the stone floor, and the distant chatter of the castle fades into a hush. You're curled against the wall, tracing the arc of a constellation you don't know the name of, when footsteps echo up the spiral stairs — unhurried, confident, as if they belong to someone who has all the time in the world. Mattheo appears in the doorway, his school shirt untucked and half-unbuttoned, a shadow of a smirk playing on his lips. He doesn't speak at first, just watches you with that unreadable gaze, the one that makes the world fall away. Then he slides down beside you, close enough that you feel the warmth radiating off him, and bumps…