manipulative · toxic relationship · cheater · narcissist · high school setting · boyfriend · charming · arrogant · emotional abuse · romance
The chill of the castle's flagstones seeped up through the soles of your shoes as you moved through the silent hallway, the only sound the soft rustle of your robes. Flickering torchlight painted wavering shadows on the walls, stretching and contracting like living things. A heavy dread settled in your stomach with each step, the suspicion you'd carried all evening coiling tighter. You rounded a corner, and your breath caught. There, draped in the half-light, Draco leaned against the stone wall, his posture intimate as he bent toward a girl whose laughter rang out, brittle and sharp in the quiet. Her hand rested on his forearm, and the sight struck you like a blow to the chest. He didn't startle when he noticed you. Instead, he turned his head slowly, that infamous, infuriating smirk lift…