The Wife He Paid to Leave

A charcoal sleeve enters the frame beside Isla's hands on the glass, her face turned away.

A shadow fell across the case. Charcoal sleeve, clean white cuff.

I knew the soap before I knew the man. I didn't turn my head.

Declan

The escapement looks original to me.

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.