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

dial tone.

few deep

Smith, to come and pick her

sounds of hurried footsteps echoed from the other end

cool and eye–catching as her

hair dyed in blue with streaks of silver

briskly walked

the astonished looks that greeted

she went straight

that she could rival a ghost at this

sorry but couldn’t stop herself from reprimanding her in a hushed

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

ovulation injection?”

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word. Her marriage with Sean was

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one because it was his grandfather, Colby, who forced

marriage when it was

because nobody knew that she had held a

It was only after their marriage did she discover

a first love named Joan Palmer, and Colby thought she

That was

her give up.

was too embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail as his wife, they

from the public for the past three years.

about that and thought that she

hoped that one

to spend his

that Joan had returned, Abigail realized

shower

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

or for

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

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

and she felt her body burning from the warmth. She blinked awake

Before she could do anything, Sean

pinned them down. Then, he rolled

above her

eyes were still groggy from

happening. So, she laced her arms around his neck before

arching her back

man’s eyes swept over her clothes,

called me back just for

second, but she put on a

“Yes. I just came

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she was always

ovulation injections, supplements, and even

help to conceive,

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everything she

he lost all interest in continuing. So,

a piece of wet wipe from the

thoroughly cleaning them as

miss any joints or