The Wife He Paid to Leave

Close view of Isla's hands using tweezers above an open pocket watch movement.

I put the loupe in and picked the part up with my tweezers.

My breath went slow, the way it does when the work takes over and nothing else is left.

Two shops had told Cleve this part could not be made. My hands didn't care about that.

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.