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

later. Don’t worry.”

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up.

dial tone. Then, he threw back her head

taking a few deep breaths.

to come and pick

sounds of hurried footsteps echoed from the other end

cool and eye–catching

hair dyed in blue with streaks of

briskly walked

Luna, the astonished looks that greeted her were

her bushy brows as she went straight to Abigail. When she

pale that she could rival

but couldn’t stop herself from reprimanding her in a

dreams with Joan. What’s the

ovulation injection?”

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

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because it was his grandfather, Colby, who

didn’t refuse the marriage when it

because nobody knew that

many years. It was only after their marriage did she

a first love named Joan Palmer, and Colby thought

Family. That was why

her give up.

to acknowledge Abigail as his wife,

the public for the past

about that and thought that she would one day be

hoped that one day he would be

genuinely want to spend his days

realized

a shower and stared at the

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the night with a bitter heart. One

for myself or for Sean, this will

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of the night, a pair of big,

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

felt her body burning

she could do anything, Sean

down. Then,

her legs

were still groggy from

So, she laced her arms

arching her

eyes swept over her clothes,

me

rigid for a second, but

just came up with

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together, she was

ovulation injections, supplements, and even

conceive, she was

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reminded that everything she was doing was only

having a baby, he lost all

out a piece of wet wipe from

cleaning them as

any joints or nooks and tossed