The Wife He Paid to Leave

The auburn-haired woman presses the old photo into the dark-haired woman's palm.
Vivienne

Keep it. You'll want it later, when you're wondering why he never looked at you.

She folded my fingers around it like a bill I owed.

Then she went back into the light, and the room closed over her like water.

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.