“This isn’t fair.”

“I’m sorry.” This was killing him.

“I don’t want you to go!”

“I really don’t have a choice.” It had been slowly eating at him for months.

“I can’t let Him take you from me.”

“You have to understand. Please, be rational.” He could hear Him calling even now.

And then he doubled over, the pain unbearable, as the cancer took the last of his life, and she cried into his broken heart as his face softened into a mask, covering his last tears of life.