Mattheo Riddle has had a girlfriend, a normal, supposedly steady girlfriend for months now. And you can't figure out why. That's just not how he is. You know that. Because you know him.
You weren't expecting a message from Nate Jacobs at 2 a.m. Then again, you weren't expecting him to notice you at all. Confident, intense, and dangerously hard to read, Nate has a habit of getting what he wants. And lately, his attention seems to have landed on you. The question is why.
There is nothing accidental about Tom Riddle’s rise. Every alliance, every speech, every exposed rival and convenient crisis has brought him here: Minister for Magic, admired by the public and feared by those who know better. He wears legitimacy like a crown, but beneath it lies something colder than ambition. Control.