The Wife He Paid to Leave

A stocky grey-haired man in a tweed jacket comes into the shop carrying a cloth bundle.

The bell over the door went. Cleve Dorsey came in with rain on his jacket and a bundle in his hands.

Cleve

You're open early.

Isla

I'm always open early.

The Wife He Paid to Leave

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I married Declan Pryce to save my watch shop. He married me to keep his family shares. I told myself the contract was enough. 'It was only a marriage on paper,' he says. Then his first love comes home, and he ends it with papers and a check. I take the papers. I leave the check. He sees my work in his own auction house. He hears Vivienne call me a copy of her. I don't beg. I don't break. Now he wants to know what was real. I need him to prove he can love the woman he paid to leave.