The Wife He Paid to Leave

Isla frowns over a small card in a display case, one hand behind her back.

I walked the lots the way I walk a workbench. Case by case, hands behind my back.

Lot forty-one was a pretty Victorian piece. The note said the movement was original.

It wasn't. Someone had swapped the escapement, and a cheap one.

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.