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

later. Don’t worry.”

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

the monotonous dial tone. Then, he threw back her

herself by taking a few deep breaths. Finally, she called

to come and

hurried footsteps echoed

appeared cool and eye–catching as

hair dyed in blue with streaks of silver flipped along

briskly walked

Luna, the astonished looks that greeted her

she went straight

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

from reprimanding her in a hushed

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

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

secretly rejoiced because nobody knew that

many years. It was only after their marriage did she

named Joan Palmer, and Colby thought

Family. That was

her give up.

was too embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail as his wife, they

marriage from the public for the past three years.

and thought that she would one

his icy heart. She hoped that one day he

to spend

returned, Abigail realized just how

shower and

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for the night with a bitter heart. One more time,

or for Sean, this

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

waist. The man’s hot breath was

she felt her body burning from the warmth. She blinked

her legs instinctively. Before she could do

and swiftly pinned them down. Then, he rolled

above her legs

groggy from slumber, she quickly

So, she laced her arms around his

arching her

swept over her clothes, and his breath raised a

me back just

rigid for a second, but she

I just came up with a new

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together, she was always the one taking

ovulation injections, supplements, and even

to conceive, she was willing to give it

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Sean was reminded that everything she

a baby, he lost all

wet wipe from

hands slowly, thoroughly cleaning them as though he

any joints or nooks and