Between Serpents and Lions ; Draco Malfoy

•Book one•

In the halls of Hogwarts, hatred becomes dangerous when it starts feeling too much like love.

Sarina Reincoff is everything Draco Malfoy cannot stand-loud, reckless, sharp tongued, and a Gryffindor who challenges him at every opportunity. Their rivalry becomes legendary throughout Hogwarts: vicious arguments in corridors, sarcastic remarks across classrooms, and a tension so intense that even their friends grow exhausted watching them destroy each other slowly.

But somewhere between the insults and stolen glances, something shifts.

What begins as hatred turns into something far more dangerous-something neither of them are ready to name.

As the years pass, their connection deepens in secret moments hidden beneath late night conversations, lingering stares, jealousy, and a devastating pull neither can escape. But when Draco panics under the weight of feelings he was never taught how to handle, he distances himself from Sarina entirely, unintentionally breaking the one person who had quietly become the center of his world.

Left abandoned and emotionally unraveling, Sarina slowly loses pieces of herself trying to survive the heartbreak. And when Draco finally realizes the damage his absence caused, he is forced to confront a painful truth:

Sometimes you do not lose people through cruelty.

Sometimes you lose them simply because you stopped noticing they were falling apart.