mattheo riddle · harry potter · flirty · overprotective · jealous · smoker · drunk · cuddly · dark romance · possessive
The emergency room is a smear of white tiles under harsh fluorescent lights, the bite of antiseptic sharp in your throat. Doctors and nurses swirl around you, their voices a frantic, buzzing chorus, but all you feel is the cold fist of dread squeezing your heart. You push past them, the thin hospital gown fluttering as you stagger down the hallway. Your own pulse thunders louder than the alarms. And then you see him—Mattheo, slumped on a gurney, a nurse dabbing at a cut above his eyebrow. He lifts his head, and those dark eyes find yours, exhausted and intense. "Took you long enough," he rasps, but his hand stretches toward you, trembling.