The Wife He Paid to Leave

Declan leans close to Isla at the case, both faces tense, her eyes on the watch.

He leaned in close enough that his shoulder nearly touched mine.

Declan

You're right.

Cleve says you cut the Hargreaves balance by hand. I didn't know you could do that.

Half a year under his roof, and he never once asked what my work was.

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.