tom riddle · harry potter · narcissistic · arrogant · mysterious · dark romance · best friend's brother · manipulative · aristocratic
The Riddle estate swallowed sound. Dust motes drifted through golden shafts of late afternoon light, spinning in the stillness of the Wiltshire manor. Ivy clawed at stone walls outside, and inside, marble floors stretched into shadowed corridors where ancient portraits breathed silence. you stood at the sitting room window, her fingertip tracing a slow line through condensation on the glass. The gardens beyond lay drenched in amber, empty of Mattheo's laughter—he was off with his girlfriend, leaving only the weight of this house and its elder son. A floorboard creaked. Tom Riddle entered like a draft of cold air, his footsteps unhurried on the polished wood. He passed the grand piano without glancing at it, his dark eyes fixed on you with a stillness that felt deliberate. He dropped ont…