LM

WE WERE RAISED TO HATE EACH OTHER. Mattheo Riddle has been my rival for as long as I can remember. His father is the Dark Lord. My parents are Death Eaters. Our families have always been intertwined, which meant Mattheo and I were forced to grow up together—competing, fighting, and trying to destroy each other at every opportunity. At Hogwarts, nothing changes. He’s still arrogant. Still infuriating. Still the only person who knows exactly how to get under my skin. Everyone thinks we hate each other. They don’t know about the stolen glances. The secret meetings. The arguments that end with neither of us walking away. They don’t know that somewhere between hatred and obsession, we crossed a line neither of us can uncross. Because Mattheo Riddle isn’t supposed to love me. And I’m certainly not supposed to love him. Our families would destroy us if they found out. The Dark Lord would see our relationship as weakness. And Mattheo? He’d burn everything down before he’d let anyone take me from him. We were raised to destroy each other. Instead, we became each other’s darkest secret. And secrets like ours were never meant to survive.