༄.⭑ boss!mattheo riddle and his love/hate relationship with you
tags. boss x employee. mean!mattheo riddle. office romance. grumpy x sunshine. controlling behaviour (kinda?) ⋮ author's note. i genuinely abandoned the 'multi-fandom' part of my profile the last few weeks but since someone asked !!! here it isss. i also still have to upload the series masterlist for this one, oops ⋮ word count. 1.0k
Boss!Mattheo Riddle who despises you from the very first moment he sees you. Sure, he's the one who hired you as his assistant, but disliking you has become a part of him, settling down into his very core.
Perhaps it’s the way you have an opinion on every little thing happening, or how your smiles are too sunny for a London office usually filled with miserable faces. The way you bring in self-baked goods for your colleagues and always make sure to stop by his office to hand him something as well.
Maybe it’s the way your presentations are continuously the brightest, filled with neon pink, blue, purple colours, while others are never-changing. Black, white, grey.
These are only ideas, after all, but one reason why he definitely despises you, and is sure of it, is because you linger. You walk in, and the dull air disappears. Your energy follows you wherever you go, and you make an amazing impression on everyone you meet— which is certainly a talent in itself.
Boss!Mattheo Riddle who praises you after you pitch him an idea, claiming it’s revolutionary in the best way one can imagine, leaving you high on ecstasy and fulfilment.
This exact feeling disappears not even three hours later, because he goes back to treating you with the cold disdain you've gotten so used to over the years. For the rest of the day, he’ll ignore you. The week that passes by is awfully slow and any new ideas you might pitch are dismissed without blinking an eye.
It’s the typical hot and cold behaviour he's gotten down to perfection. It always leaves you twitching, and you're never truly sure when he’ll start talking to you again. It seems that even while being his assistant, minimal words being shared work perfectly in his world.
Boss!Mattheo Riddle who interferes with your personal life at any given chance. It seems he's grown to become a master at this, too.
It’s strange, truly, because working overtime has never been an issue for you, and you've never been opposed to it in any way. He simply picks the worst moments for you, and when you try to say no, he’ll give you that flat look of his. It’s no surprise that twenty minutes later you're back at your desk, completely obedient when in reality you're anything but.
You think it’s a coincidence, and he pretends it is as well. Since he seems so indifferent to everything constantly happening around him, it’s easy to put on this mask. If he heard your colleagues talking about you going out on a date after work earlier that day, then that would be his secret to keep, wouldn't it be?
Boss!Mattheo Riddle who helps you with your interest in writing, but would never allow one of your works to be published in order to keep you close to him.
Is it completely horrible if he's blocking your own personal and career growth? Most definitely. There’s just something terrifying about coming in to work one day and seeing your desk near his secluded office completely empty, scattered with stuff belonging to someone that's not you.
The thought of you no longer lingering in his office makes his chest ache, and don’t even get him started on the contagious yet obnoxious laughter echoing throughout the entire floor of the building. The way you accidentally leave your sparkly pens in his office after a meeting, your iced coffee with too much sugar in it not taking its usual spot on the table in the conference room, or even the way your cheeks flush and how you duck your head in a shy manner whenever someone compliments you.
All these things potentially disappearing in the blink of an eye doesn't sit right with him, so sue him if he keeps you from moving higher up, he stays a happy man this way.
Boss!Mattheo Riddle who publicly corrects you when you get specific information wrong during a presentation (the kind he kept from you, not on purpose, it merely slipped his mind).
When you stare at him with big eyes afterwards in his office, pathetically, practically begging for a compliment, all he’ll do is click his tongue and barely manage to shake his head. He’s not that bad, because he’ll tell you it was completely his fault, tell you that you did so great, and that you were just oh-so remarkable, and you’ll feel something tug on your heartstrings, unaware you've already fallen deep.
Boss!Mattheo Riddle whose eyes burn holes into the back of your head whenever you're focusing on your mandatory tasks.
It doesn't matter if all your notebooks are spread out messily on your desk while you're preparing your agenda for tomorrow, or when you're scheduling Mattheo’s meetings and calls for the upcoming week that you've been made aware of. Like clockwork, a moth drawn to the flame— his eyes, even from his office, are locked onto your figure, following every subtle and even the slightest of movement.
When you're walking into a room, his eyes are focusing on the door long before you walk in, as if the mere notion of you being anywhere near him is a sixth sense of some sort to him.
Dark brown eyes flickering with something no one has seen on his face before, an expression completely foreign. A hint of something softer, nearly bordering on being considered tender.
Boss!Mattheo Riddle who singles you out and decides that working with you, and you alone, while the sun is setting outside is beyond productive. These late nights or meetings have never been necessary, and he could do them with anyone else— yet his nuanced favouritism shows.
Boss!Mattheo Riddle who gets incredibly heated during small arguments he has with you, in a way that the entire room fills with tension. Not dying down soon, noses almost grazing, aggravated breaths mingling, hands twitching due to not being able to reach out.
Boss!Mattheo Riddle who hates you with every fibre of being, and still, in an unexplainable way, he can't stay away. Everyone knows he's tried.
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