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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off and grumbled in annoyance, “I’ll be

later. Don’t worry.”

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

listened to the monotonous dial tone. Then, he

a few deep breaths. Finally, she called

Luna Smith, to come and

footsteps echoed from the other

corridor. The woman appeared cool and

dyed in blue with streaks of

as she briskly walked

that greeted

raised her bushy brows as she went straight

was so pale that she could rival a

but couldn’t stop herself from reprimanding

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

ovulation injection?”

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head without a word.

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it was his grandfather, Colby, who forced

didn’t refuse the marriage when it was proposed to

because nobody knew that she had held a

many years. It was only after their marriage did

first love named Joan Palmer,

enough for the Graham Family. That was

her give up.

Sean was too embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail as his wife,

their marriage from the public for the past three

care about that and thought that she would one day be able

hoped that one day he would

want to spend his days with

realized just how silly she had

took a shower and stared at the lingerie

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night with a bitter heart. One

it’s for myself or for Sean,

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

Abigail by the waist. The man’s hot

and she felt her body burning from the warmth.

legs instinctively. Before she could do anything, Sean grabbed

and swiftly pinned them down. Then, he

her legs

were still groggy from slumber,

arms around his

and arching her

her clothes, and his breath

me back just for

for a second, but she

“Yes. I just came

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she was always the one

even sexual

could help to conceive, she was willing

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reminded that everything she was doing was only

of having a baby, he lost all interest in