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

later. Don’t worry.”

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

to the monotonous dial tone. Then, he threw

herself by taking a few deep breaths.

Luna Smith, to come and

hurried footsteps echoed

The woman appeared cool and

in blue with streaks of silver flipped along with

briskly

Luna, the astonished looks that greeted her were no longer a

as she

pale that she could rival a

from

the life of his dreams with Joan. What’s

ovulation injection?”

Sept

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head without a word. Her marriage with Sean was

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was his grandfather,

Abigail didn’t refuse the marriage when

nobody knew that

was only after their marriage

first love named Joan Palmer, and Colby

enough for the Graham Family. That was

her give up.

acknowledge Abigail as his

the public for

didn’t care about that and thought that she would one day

his icy heart. She hoped that one day he would be able to forget

want to spend his

returned, Abigail realized just how

shower and stared at the lingerie she

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night with a bitter heart. One more time, she

Whether it’s for myself or for Sean,

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night, a pair of

the waist. The man’s hot breath

body burning from the warmth.

she could do

swiftly pinned them down. Then, he

above her legs

groggy from

happening. So, she laced her arms around his

and arching her back to

eyes swept over her clothes, and his breath

“You called me

rigid for a second, but she put

I just came up

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were together, she was always the one taking

and even sexual positions; as

to conceive, she was

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she was doing was

he lost all interest in continuing. So,

a piece of wet wipe from the bedside

cleaning them as though he

miss any joints or nooks