They called him a monster.
A creature born from darkness, feared by kings and worshipped by the forgotten.
Then he met her.
A silver-haired queen who walked into his ruined cathedral without fear.
He offered her a throne, a kingdom, and every secret the darkness possessed.
She asked for nothing.
Yet he gave her everything.
The world believed he had made her his prisoner.
But no one knew the truth.
The devil had never kept her.
She was the one who made him stay.