Y/N and Mattheo Riddle grew up as inseparable childhood friends, sharing secret nights in a backyard treehouse and a first kiss they never forgot. But after a brutal incident tears them apart, they reunite years later at Hogwarts as twenty-year-old Slytherins — only now Mattheo is cold, distant, and determined to hate the girl he once trusted with everything. What follows is a dark, slowburn tangle of yearning, denial, and buried emotion as two soul-tethered hearts try to outrun the past… and fa