The Spare Wife 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,

later. Don’t worry.”

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no time hanging up.

tone. Then, he threw back her head

a few deep breaths.

come

of hurried footsteps echoed from the other

The woman appeared cool

streaks

briskly walked down

looks that greeted her were no longer

she went straight to Abigail. When

she could rival a ghost at this rate,

from reprimanding her in

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

ovulation injection?”

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hung her head without a word. Her marriage with Sean was not

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his grandfather, Colby, who forced

the marriage when it was proposed

because nobody knew that she had held a torch

only after their marriage did she discover

first love named Joan Palmer, and

Family. That was why he used Abigail

her give up.

acknowledge Abigail as his

marriage from the public for the past

and thought that she would

one day

want to spend

that Joan had returned, Abigail realized

shower and

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with a bitter heart.

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

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

man’s hot breath

her body burning from the warmth. She blinked

instinctively. Before she could do anything,

down. Then, he rolled on top

her

eyes were still groggy from

arms around his

her back

her clothes,

called me back

muscles turned rigid for a second, but she

just came

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she was always the

injections, supplements, and even sexual positions;

help to conceive, she was willing

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she

baby, he lost all interest in

of wet wipe

cleaning

didn’t miss any