Melomiri

The Five-Hour Husband

Language: en

Evelyn Vance only gave me a quota of five hours of free personal time each year. Eating a meal with me deducted forty minutes. Going back to visit my hometown deducted two hours. Even our intimacy was timed from the very first second she kissed me. Evelyn was the youngest senior partner at a top-tier white-shoe law firm. Her private consultation fee was $6,000 an hour. I always thought she was just meticulously strict about her time. Until the firm’s annual gala, when Liam Carter—the junior associate she had personally mentored—suddenly smiled and asked: “Evelyn, how much time does your…

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