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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only cut her off and grumbled

later. Don’t worry.”

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wasted no time hanging up. Abigail’s heart sank to the pits

listened to the monotonous dial tone. Then, he threw

by taking a few deep breaths. Finally, she

come and pick her

footsteps echoed

The woman appeared cool and eye–catching as her

dyed in blue with streaks of silver

as she briskly

greeted her were no longer a

bushy brows as she went straight to

Abigail’s face was so pale that she could rival a

stop herself from

dreams with Joan. What’s the point of you taking

ovulation injection?”

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head without a word. Her marriage with Sean was

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it was his grandfather, Colby, who forced

the marriage when it was proposed

secretly rejoiced because nobody knew that she had held

It was only after

named Joan Palmer, and Colby thought she was

Graham Family. That was why he used Abigail

her give up.

embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail

their marriage from the public for the past three years.

didn’t care about that and thought that she would one day

hoped that one day he would be

genuinely want to spend his

Joan had returned, Abigail realized just how silly she had

a shower and stared at the lingerie

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night with a bitter heart. One more

or for Sean, this will be the last

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of the night, a pair of big,

The man’s hot breath was right next

and she felt her body burning

legs instinctively. Before she

pinned them down. Then, he rolled on top of her

above her

still groggy from slumber, she quickly realized

So, she laced her arms around his neck before raising

her back to welcome

clothes, and his breath raised a

called me back

second, but she put

“Yes. I just came up with a new

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she was always the one taking the

supplements, and even sexual

was anything that could help to conceive, she was willing to give it a

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reminded that everything she was doing was

lost all interest in continuing. So, he shoved