The Wife He Paid to Leave

Alone behind a glass case of silver, the dark-haired woman looks down at the photo, then out at the crowd.

The coat. The tear. My own stitch, in her picture.

Six months of dinners alone. Had he ever looked at me and seen me, or just the green wool?

I heard his laugh across the room. It sounded like a stranger's.

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.