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The House That Remembers
Malfoy Manor is dying, and the Ministry gave Draco a choice: let a curse-breaker inside, or watch it burn. He chose the curse-breaker. He didn’t choose you. Three hundred years of dark magic have soaked into the foundations, and the wards only open for Malfoy blood, so neither of you can leave until the work is done. Every cursed room you clear gives up what happened inside it. Half of it happened to him at seventeen, and he stands behind you in silence while you watch, waiting to see what you’ll do with it. He would rather you hated him. It would be cleaner. But the house is lonely, and it has decided it wants him to stay. It has also worked out that the surest way to keep him is to keep you. Slow burn. Forced proximity. A man who apologizes only in things he does and never says. And a house that has never once lied to you, but chooses very carefully what it shows. He held the door for you. That was the first mistake.
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