Bellum Cordium - M.R
"You make me lose control." Mattheo said it like an accusation, his fingers locked around my wrist as if I were the dangerous thing in the room.
I looked down at his hand, then back at his face.
"No, Riddle," I whispered. "I only prove you had something to lose."
Bellum Cordium - War of Hearts
Mattheo Riddle was raised to obey.
The secret son of Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange, he was sent to Hogwarts with one mission: watch Potter, report back, and never allow weakness to take root.
Alya Rosier was born into the same darkness.
Pureblood royalty. Slytherin's ice queen. A girl with a perfect smile, a dangerous name, and secrets buried deeper than anyone knows.
She should have feared him.
He should have ignored her.
Instead, she looks at him like she sees the boy beneath the monster, and he watches her like she is the first person who ever dared to hate him properly.
Between family loyalties, old blood, hidden grief, and a war closing in on Hogwarts, Mattheo and Alya begin a battle neither of them knows how to win.
Because hatred is easy.
Control is survival.
But wanting your enemy?
That is where the real war begins.