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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her off and grumbled in

later. Don’t worry.”

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no time hanging up. Abigail’s

the monotonous dial tone. Then, he threw back her head

deep breaths. Finally,

come and pick her

hurried footsteps

woman appeared cool

with streaks of

briskly walked

astonished looks that greeted her

brows as she

Abigail’s face was so pale that she could rival

from reprimanding her in a hushed

dreams with Joan. What’s the point of

ovulation injection?”

Sept

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a word. Her marriage with

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it was his grandfather, Colby,

the marriage when it

that

years. It was only after their marriage did she

named Joan

enough for the Graham Family. That was why

her give up.

too embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail as

their marriage from the public for the past three years.

about that and thought that she would one day be

hoped that one day

want to spend his days

that Joan had returned, Abigail realized just how

she arrived, she took a shower and stared at

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night with a bitter

it’s for myself or for Sean,

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

the waist. The man’s hot breath was

felt her body burning from the warmth.

legs instinctively. Before she could do anything, Sean grabbed

pinned them down. Then, he rolled

her legs

eyes were still groggy from slumber, she quickly realized

So, she laced her arms around his neck before

and arching her back to

clothes, and his breath raised

me

for a second, but she put on

“Yes. I just came up with a new

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she was always the one taking

ovulation injections, supplements, and even

could help to conceive, she was willing to

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she was doing was only for

a baby, he lost all interest in continuing.

piece of wet wipe from the

thoroughly cleaning them

any joints or nooks and tossed