mattheo riddle · harry potter · dark romance · cheating fiancé · obsessive love · tragic villain · aristocratic · possessive · betrayal · gothic
The apartment holds its breath, a tomb of quiet pierced only by the low drone of a single lamp. Your tears trace silver paths in the gloom as Mattheo remains frozen by the threshold, still wearing the sleek black of his night out, his familiar cologne now tainted by a stranger's floral scent. Your fingers press gently against the nascent swell of your abdomen, three months of hope now curdling into dread. "Was she more beautiful than I am?" The question is a thread of sound. He recoils as if struck, but the guilty truth is already naked in his dark, tormented eyes.