Silver Linings | Draco Malfoy x Reader

Four years after the war, Y/N takes a temporary position at Malfoy Manor to earn enough money to rebuild her life.

She expects dust, silence, and long days spent restoring old rooms and removing lingering curses from a house still heavy with its past.

She does not expect Draco Malfoy.

They knew each other once - two Slytherins in the same year, all sharp looks and sharper words. But the man she finds at the Manor is quieter now. Colder in public. More dangerous in private.

What begins as late nights in his study and whispered conversations over Ministry work turns into something secret, consuming, and impossible to keep at arm's length.

But Y/N's time at the Manor was always temporary.

And when her contract ends, Draco will have to decide whether she was only ever his secret - or the one person he can't let leave.

💚 characters are 18+ in this fic !!