The Wife He Paid to Leave

The watchmaker works with tweezers and a loupe, her face calm and focused.

Each part got cleaned, checked, and set down in its place. No shortcuts. Not tonight.

My hands knew what to do, and the rest of me went quiet behind them.

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.