The Wife He Paid to Leave

The man in the charcoal suit stands very close beside the woman at the window, speaking quietly, her jaw tight.
Declan

You were right about the fork. The clerk changed the note.

He stood close. Close enough that I caught his soap, and my body woke up at it like it had been waiting.

Isla

I know I was right. I don't need you to confirm it.

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.