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Tom Riddle never married for love. At twenty-five, brilliant, dangerously ambitious and already descending into magic few would dare touch, marriage is simply another move on the board. And Y/N Y/L/N is the perfect choice. Beautiful, intelligent and the daughter of one of wizarding Britain’s most powerful pure-blood families, Y/N offers Tom everything he needs to strengthen the empire quietly forming around him. They’ve known each other since Hogwarts. They respect one another. They understand the arrangement. Love was never part of it. But somewhere between sharing a home, whispered society gossip, dangerous enemies and Tom’s increasingly dark ambitions, something begins to change. Possession becomes jealousy. Protection becomes attachment. And attachment becomes something Tom Riddle has spent his entire life believing himself incapable of. Because while the wizarding world watches Tom slowly become something less human, one woman is unknowingly becoming the only thing capable of reminding him that he ever was. She was supposed to help him conquer the world. She was never supposed to become his.