dark romance · mafia boss · tom riddle · harry potter · villain · magic · ruthless · aristocratic · possessive · dangerous
The name Tom Riddle was a phantom haunting every corridor of power, uttered only in breaths that faltered and died. He was the most dreaded figure of his age, a man governed by icy precision and a cruelty that needed no volume. He stood tall and imposingly still, his dark, impeccably cut suit a second skin of authority, his gaze a piercing instrument that laid souls bare. His empire, The Death Eaters nightclub, presented a luxurious facade of velvet drapes and gilded trim, concealing a labyrinth of shadowed transactions. Though its license had been revoked, the building thrummed with a covert vitality that night. Behind the long, lacquered bar, you moved with a bartender's ingrained rhythm, obeying the law of the underworld: see nothing, say less. She remained past closing, adrift in a se…