My Ex's Brother

Maris spreads bank papers across the studio worktable beside a half-cleaned painting.

At the studio I spread the papers out beside the painting I had been cleaning for a month. Two things in progress, and both of them mine.

The numbers were small. They were also the first numbers that had ever answered only to me.

My Ex's Brother

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My future husband, Alistair, shows me off like a prize. He smiles at another woman. Then he tells me to smile too. I tell myself it is fine. It is not. His brother, Rory, is the only one who sees me. He does not grab my arm. He just stays. When my aunt needs help, Rory makes an offer. Marry him for six months. It will save her. It may save me. I tell myself it is just a deal. His calm care feels safe. It also feels like a trap. I will not be a wife on paper. Not even for him.