The Wife He Paid to Leave

The woman bends over the tiny twisted part under her loupe, ready to begin.

The balance was small enough to sit on my thumbnail. Twisted like a bad memory.

I could fix it. That was the thing nobody had been able to take.

Somewhere under the pride, I wanted him to see me do it. I hated that.

Isla

Three days.

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.