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, “I’ll be

later. Don’t worry.”

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hanging up. Abigail’s

tone. Then, he threw back

deep breaths. Finally, she

come and pick her

later, sounds of hurried footsteps

appeared cool and eye–catching as

dyed in blue with streaks of silver flipped

she briskly walked

greeted her were no longer a

raised her bushy brows as she went straight

that she

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

of his dreams with Joan. What’s

ovulation injection?”

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without a word. Her marriage with Sean

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his grandfather, Colby,

when it was proposed

knew that she had

for many years. It was only after their marriage

a first love named Joan Palmer, and Colby thought she

That was why he used

her give up.

was too embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail as his

from the public for the past

didn’t care about that and thought that she

She hoped that one day he would

spend his days

Joan had returned, Abigail realized

she arrived, she took a shower and stared at the

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prepared for the night with a bitter heart.

it’s for myself or for Sean, this will

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middle of the night, a pair of big,

man’s hot breath was right

and she felt her body burning

her legs instinctively. Before she could do

down. Then, he rolled

above her legs

were still groggy from slumber, she

arms around his neck before

arching her

eyes swept over her clothes, and his

me back just for

muscles turned rigid for a second, but

I just came up with a new

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was

and even

was anything that could help to conceive, she was willing to

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was reminded that everything she was

lost all interest in continuing. So, he

a piece of wet wipe from the

thoroughly cleaning

filthy. He didn’t miss any