The Wife He Paid to Leave

Isla holds the ticking gold watch, chin up, while Cleve waits by the wrapped catalog.
Cleve

Open it. Come to the preview. Let them see who you are.

I looked at the wrapped catalog. Declan's name sat on it, cold and neat.

Then I looked at the Hargreaves watch, ticking in my hand.

Isla

Tell them I'll be there.

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.