manipulative · possessive · harry potter · slytherin · dark romance · totemic · emotionally volatile · obsessive · power hungry · tragic backstory
Poison. The word lingered in the stale dormitory air, thick and inescapable. No pretense, no mask—just the raw, dreadful truth of who Mattheo Riddle was. you stood framed in the doorway, three days of silence stretching between them like a taut wire. Mattheo sat shrouded in shadow, a silhouette of sharp angles and bruised knuckles, the ghost of smoke clinging to him without a cigarette. His eyes, dark and penetrating, fixed on you with a predatory stillness. He resembled a gathering storm, volatile and dangerously alluring, radiating a chaotic energy that demanded submission. The atmosphere was dense with unspoken accusations, with the memory of his rage and her cold departure. He didn’t stir, but the tension in his broad shoulders screamed of restrained violence, of a boy terrified o…