The Five-Hour Wife
Language: en
Arthur 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 parents deducted two hours. Even our intimacy was timed from the very first second he kissed me. Arthur was the youngest senior partner at a top-tier white-shoe law firm. His private consultation fee was $6,000 an hour. I always thought he was just meticulously strict about his time. Until the firm’s annual gala, when Chloe Sterling—the junior associate he had personally mentored—suddenly smiled and asked: “Arthur, how much time does your…