A Benevolent Consequence

I put some distance between us and looked up at him, putting all the hope I had left for his soul into my next sentence.
“Set humanity free.” I begged him.
“No,” He stopped smiling, looking at me seriously. “Humanity can only dream up the horrible, malicious, destructive acts they commit because they're allowed too much freedom.” He twirled me away and back to him. “They needed something to believe in. They needed consequence. I only filled a vacuum that needed to be filled so they could function properly. So they could stop suffering.” I don’t know whether it was the music, the atmosphere, or his eyes like pools of molten gold...

Benevolent Convolent is a dark romantasy between where the villain the hero is sworn to destroy is also her love interest.