A powerful pureblood's daughter, raised with humility and kindness, spent her childhood visiting an orphanage, where she unknowingly befriended the young Tom Riddle. Their bond faded as years passed, but fate reunites them when she returns to Britain after years abroad studying at the prestigious Salvatore school. Tom-now the enigmatic and ambitious Minister of Magic-does not immediately recognize her, nor she him. Because we are both now In positions of power and money and are scared people will just use us for it, we bump into each other and give each other fake names. But fragments of their shared childhood resurface, pulling them into a slow, irresistible dance between denial, memory, and an attraction neither can shake.