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

later. Don’t worry.”

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hanging up. Abigail’s heart sank to

the monotonous dial tone. Then, he threw back her

few deep breaths. Finally, she called her

come and pick her

hurried footsteps echoed from the other

corridor. The woman appeared cool and eye–catching as her

hair dyed in blue with streaks of silver

she briskly walked

the astonished looks that greeted her were no longer

her bushy brows as she went straight to Abigail.

face was so pale that she could rival a

herself from

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

ovulation injection?”

Sept

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word. Her marriage

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one because it was his grandfather, Colby, who forced

marriage when it

knew that

was only after their marriage did she

first love named Joan Palmer, and Colby thought she

Graham Family. That

her give up.

too embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail as his

from the public for the past three

that and thought that she

his icy heart. She hoped that one day he

spend his days with

Joan had returned, Abigail realized just how

she took a shower and

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the night with a bitter heart.

Whether it’s for myself or for Sean, this

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pair of big, cold palms carrying a

held Abigail by the waist. The man’s hot breath was

her body burning from the warmth.

Before she could do anything, Sean

pinned them down. Then, he rolled on

her

eyes were still groggy from slumber, she quickly realized

she laced her arms

and arching her back

clothes, and his

called me back just

a second, but she put on a smile the

just came up

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were together, she was always the one

supplements, and even sexual positions; as

could help to conceive, she was willing

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everything she was doing

of having a baby, he lost all interest in continuing. So, he