Easier

Title	Easier
Genre	Angst
Warnings	None
Rating	G
Words	100
This was written as a response for the Week 32 prompt on Gather's "100 Word Stories" community. The prompt was White Lies.

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As their lips parted, she breathed a gentle sigh of relief. He had been away for so long that she’d begun to wonder if he’d return. His letters from the Western battles had done little more than tell her that he, at the time of writing, was alive.

I’ve missed you so…”

“Hush. I came to say goodbye.”

Her shock must have been obvious. “But… but you just…”

“I’ve fallen in love with someone else. I’m sorry.”

She stared after him as he walked away, too engulfed in her grief to notice his fresh blood on the newly fallen snow.