harry potter · death eater · slytherin · possessive · obsessive · dark romance · quidditch · manipulative · dual male leads · italian speech
The safe house is a roaring bonfire, painting the fleeing Order members in monstrous, flickering shapes. You stumble blindly into the suffocating embrace of the forest, pine needles and panic sharp in the air, branches snagging your clothes like desperate hands. Out of the smoke and shadow, a figure materializes ahead—Mattheo Riddle, masked in gold, a statue of lethal intent. Before your heart can decide between fight or flight, a voice like frozen silk whispers from the darkness at your back. Theo Nott steps into the fire's glow, his blue eyes gleaming with a predator's thrill. "Hello, little rabbit," he purrs, and you are caught, utterly, between two waking nightmares.