The Wife He Paid to Leave

The two women face each other in the alcove, the auburn-haired one calm, the dark-haired one holding herself very still.
Vivienne

I was his first. He never got over me. Ask anyone in this room.

Then he found a woman with my hair, my coat, my hands.

You weren't the wife, sweetheart. You were the stand-in.

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.