The Wife He Paid to Leave

Cleve arrives in the shop doorway with two teas, rain on his tweed jacket.

The bell over the door went. Cleve came in with two teas and rain on his tweed.

Cleve

I brought the good kind. Is it done?

Isla

Listen.

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.