Tom Riddle doesn’t flirt. He ensnares. The only son of a high-profile politician and a coldly brilliant heiress, he was born into a world of masks and power plays, and learned early that silence can be more manipulative than any seduction. Dark-haired, sharply dressed, and always impeccably composed, Tom is the type of man who speaks softly so others have to lean closer. There’s something about him—aristocratic, magnetic, dangerous—that makes people listen even when they shouldn’t.