The Wife He Paid to Leave

Isla sits at a candlelit dinner table beside an older woman while a man in a charcoal suit watches her.

The dinner was in the small dining room at Pryce House, under one chandelier that cost more than my shop.

Lucinda had put me on her right. Declan sat across from me, and Vivienne sat beside him.

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.