I Want a Divorce by Nadia Gordon

Chapter 1

‘Your husband has cheated on you.‘

When Abigail Quinn received the text message from her best friend, she had

just taken an ovulation injection and was resting on the bench of the

outpatient clinic, trying to suppress the piercing pain in her abdomen. Her

hair was dark and her skin as fair as snow, but there was no trace of blood on

her face now. Even so, that didn’t overshadow her stunning looks and

passersby kept turning their heads to look at her.

Then, she inhaled deeply and tapped with a trembling finger, and opened the

picture on her cell phone to take a look. It was a picture of Sean Graham

holding a woman in a pink haute couture dress while walking out of a hotel.

The man’s usually cold and stoic face looked tender as he lowered his head

at the woman in the picture.

Abigail knew who that woman was, Sean’s first love, Joan Palmer.

After a while, she snapped back to her senses, searched for Sean’s number,

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and called him. She waited for a long time for the busy dial tone to end and

the man’s aloof voice finally echoed from the other end of the call. “What’s

the problem?”

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“Are you coming home tonight?” Actually, she wanted to ask if he even

wanted to return home.

Alas, it was clear that her call itself had already caused Sean to feel annoyed.

Thus, after a few seconds of silence, he said impatiently, “Is there an

important issue we need to discuss?”

Tears immediately welled up in her eyes, his indifferent voice stabbing her

heart like a knife, but she expertly masked her sadness. “Did you forget what

day it is today?”

They had been married in secret for three years, and except for that monthly

coitus, they rarely met with each other. Today was their wedding anniversary,

the day when he should return home. When they were in bed last month, he

promised her that he would spend the day with her.

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cut her off and grumbled in annoyance, “I’ll be

later. Don’t worry.”

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he wasted no time hanging up. Abigail’s heart sank

dial tone.

taking a few deep breaths.

Smith, to come and pick

minutes later, sounds of hurried footsteps echoed from

appeared cool and eye–catching as

blue with streaks of silver

she briskly

looks that greeted her were no longer

raised her bushy brows as she went straight to

she could rival a ghost

from reprimanding her

the life of his dreams with Joan. What’s the point

ovulation injection?”

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her head without a word. Her marriage with

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it was his grandfather, Colby, who forced them

the marriage when it was proposed

because nobody knew that

for many years. It was only after their marriage did she discover

had a first love named Joan Palmer, and Colby

Family. That was why he

her give up.

was too embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail as his wife,

marriage from the public

that and thought that she would one day be able

one day he would

want to spend

that Joan had returned, Abigail realized just how silly she

shower and stared at

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with a bitter heart. One more

Whether it’s for myself or for Sean, this will be the

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of the night, a pair of big, cold palms carrying a little

the waist. The man’s hot breath was

and she felt her body burning from the warmth. She blinked

Before she could do anything, Sean

swiftly pinned them down. Then, he rolled on top

her

still groggy from slumber,

laced her arms around his neck

arching her back to welcome

her clothes, and his breath raised a

me

rigid for a second, but she put

came up with a new

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they were together, she was always the one taking the

even sexual positions;

help to conceive, she was willing to give it a

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reminded that everything she was doing was

baby, he lost all interest in continuing. So, he shoved