Beautifully Ruined | Mattheo Riddle

​"The hardest part about burning alive is watching the people who love you give up on putting out the fire."

​Pansy, Theo, Blaise, Draco, Mattheo, and Priscilla Lopez. They are the untouchable elite of the Slytherin sixth year-fiercely loyal, deeply chaotic, and bound together like family.

​But Priscilla is a beautifully packaged tragedy. Numbed by a quiet emptiness, she spends her nights chasing dangerous highs: smoking on the Astronomy Tower with Theo, drinking until the world blurs, and losing herself in meaningless hookups. Her devoted older brother, Enzo, knows exactly what she gets up to. He used to fight to save her, but now, he's simply given up trying to stop her-leaving behind a heavy, heartbreaking silence that eats Priscilla alive with guilt.

​She thought she was entirely alone in her downward spiral.

​Until her closest guy friend in the circle started looking closer.

​Mattheo Riddle understands darkness better than anyone. He doesn't look at Priscilla with Enzo's quiet disappointment or Draco's pity. Because they are already best friends, he's been watching her from the couch every single night. But as Priscilla's self-destruction worsens, the safe boundaries of their friendship begin to fracture. Mattheo's protective instincts morph into a dark, territorial obsession. He doesn't want to fix her-he wants to hold her while she falls.

​Crossing the line with a friend is reckless. Falling for a Riddle will ruin her beautifully.