The Wife He Paid to Leave

A slender woman in a cream silk dress with long auburn hair steps into the frame holding a glass, smiling, gold jewelry glinting.
Vivienne

There you both are. Hiding by the window like a secret.

Cream silk. Fresh glass. That smile with the manicure behind it.

Vivienne

Declan, go be important. Someone wants to bid on something.

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.