Her Reluctant Wife: A Lesbian Age Gap Romance - Page 5

treatments, medication, it was all so expensive.

They’d agreed together to sell the pieces they couldn’t bear

to part with when it was clear it was time. Her mother’s

necklace went last.

It was a special piece, remade and redesigned every year on

their anniversary. Her dad gave it to her mom at their wedding

and every year after that, he took it back and crafted it into

something new. After twenty-five years of marriage, the

necklace had become something elaborate, cherished, and

worth a lot of money.

It had been advertised with an auction house, and Coralyn

knew the name of the woman who bought it, because that was

stipulated at the sale, that it would be public. Her dad had

insisted, as if one day, she might be able to find whoever

bought it and buy it back. She knew it would never happen,

but because of that stipulation, Coralyn knew the name: Giana

Thompson.

Coralyn had done a few online searches after the sale. Giana

was some crazy rich lady who owned a real estate

development company in the city. She was powerful, richer

than God. She collected things. Artwork. Sculptures. Rare and

interesting pieces from around the world. Jewellery.

It was the sale of that necklace that was paying for her

father to be in this room right now. She would so rather have

had him at home, but a private nurse was even more

expensive, and he’d insisted that the hospital was fine. They

both knew the apartment wasn’t home. Their house, the place

where they’d been a family before Coralyn’s mom died in a

car accident, was long gone.

The rattle of her dad’s breathing brought her back to the

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