The Spare Wife by Nadia Gordon

Chapter 138 Trying To Understand

Abigail truly cared about no one now. Not only did she not care about Sean’s prestige, but she also disregarded Cornelie’s words.

“She doesn’t know how to do anything. What can she achieve outside? With a capable husband like

you, she’s still insistent on earning a meager salary outside. Only people who come from the countryside have such poor mindsets,” Cornelie criticized with disdain.

Sean used to dislike Abigail, and he would forget such words in the past. As he carefully listened, he

couldn’t help but feel that these words were like thorns pricking at his heart.

“Grandma, have you always been talking to her like this?” he asked suddenly.

“Why? Did I say anything wrong? We’ve spent thousands to feed and clothe her, yet she’s never

given us a child,” Cornelie muttered.

After listening indifferently, he said, “I’ve said before that I don’t want kids. Why are you making

things difficult for her? Why did you ask her to come back today?”

His tone carried a hint of anger, and Cornelie could sense it. She stuttered, “I-I found a doctor to

treat her.”

“It won’t help. I don’t want a child,” he said coldly before hanging up

the phone.

just about him but also the resentment that built up over these

were harsh, and when they first got married, he felt that Abigail had

be mistreated by Cornelie. This initial sense of

become a habit, and he grew

so of course, he couldn’t understand what kind of emotions she had experienced

soon as he hung up, Colby’s

when he heard Colby’s fit of anger. “Have you been cheating, and did

cheat!” Sean immediately

home for three years. Now, she’s gone out to work. What kind of husband are you? Are you

you’ve spent on

a heinous crime. We don’t have children yet, and she wants to

teeth. “She’d

Sean frustrated and

sent a message to Abigail. ‘Do you know what you’ve done? I got scolded by

on his work and kept checking

response.

was working non-stop, and it was soon 9.00PM when she finally left

That was when she noticed

him

connected, he hung up.

and couldn’t be

he pretended to sound.

Grandpa say?”

might affect her grandmother and him, for they had agreed to put on a facade for the sake of the

promise.

his grandfather’s words were meaningless, and if

get angry because of

probably need it more.” She was

and get some pills. Do you

teased her.

as she replied in