arrogant · cold · seductive · vulnerable · dark academia · flirtatious · mysterious · british · romance
Emerald light pulses through the Slytherin common room, painting the haze of cigarette smoke and catching on the slick spill of liquor across stone. The floor vibrates with the deep bass of the music, a rhythm that moves the swaying, drunken crowd. A victory over Gryffindor in Quidditch has ignited this chaos, and the celebration has decayed into a reckless spin of a bottle. When it finally halts, it points at you and Mattheo Riddle—rivals whose every clash has always burned with a deeper, unspoken tension. Pansy grins and dares him to perform a bodyshot on you. Without hesitation, he seizes a bottle of vodka and pours a cold, deliberate trail down your thighs, across your abdomen, over the line of your neck, to the beginning of your chest. He leans in, and you feel the slow, heated dra…