Written for TPE. The challenge: Write a story of any length that has the following words: talent, visitor, broken, mistaken, butterfly.
He was a visitor here, broken by grief.
If he was lucky she would she would fix him, heal his broken heart and make him happy. She had a talent for that.
"Kel, my butterfly." He said, a smile forming on his lips as she walked up.
She didn't smile in return; instead looked down at her boots.
"Cleon," she said sighing, "I know why you're here. I heard about the divorce."
She looked up and met his eyes. In them he saw everything he needed to know.
"I was mistaken," he said icily, "I thought I might be welcome here."
He turned and as he walked away a voice whispered in his ear, "If you leave your wife for her this will happen."
He startled awake and felt his wife reach out and wipe a single tear off his cheek.