Monster

"You're heartless."
"Well, maybe once I cared too much."
It wasn't supposed to happen this way. There was nothing that Aether couldn't have handled. Everything his father, the Devil himself, had thrown his way, he had thrown it back in his face. But when she was pushed into his life, it all fell apart.
She was strange, and human.
She was weak, and kind.
It wasn't meant to be. The likes of her weren't supposed to suffer.
Especially not when he was the one damned.