The Wife He Paid to Leave

A dark-haired woman in a work apron stands at a tall window in an auction gallery, her reflection in the glass, a tall man in a charcoal suit approaching behind her.

I got the note fixed, then went to the tall window at the end of the gallery to get my breath back.

My reflection looked back at me in the dark glass. Dark hair. Strong hands. One type.

Then a charcoal sleeve came into the glass beside 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.