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.

to the monotonous dial tone. Then, he

deep breaths. Finally, she called

Smith, to come and pick

of hurried footsteps echoed from

The woman appeared cool

hair dyed in blue with streaks of silver flipped along with

briskly walked down the

the astonished looks that greeted her were

bushy brows as she went straight to

was so pale that she could rival a ghost at

stop herself from reprimanding her in a

dreams with Joan. What’s

ovulation injection?”

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head without a word. Her marriage

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one because it was his

when it was proposed

that she had held a torch

for many years. It was only after their marriage

love named Joan Palmer, and Colby thought she was

That was why he used

her give up.

Sean was too embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail as his wife, they

their marriage from the public for the past three years.

that she would one day be

hoped that one day

want to spend his days with

returned, Abigail realized just how silly she had

she arrived, she took a shower and stared at the lingerie

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with a bitter heart. One more time,

for Sean, this will be

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

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

body burning from the warmth. She blinked

her legs instinctively. Before she could

pinned them down. Then, he rolled on top of her

above her

still groggy from slumber, she quickly

she laced her arms around his neck

arching her back

clothes, and his

called me back

a second, but she

just came up with

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they were together, she was always the one

even

was anything that could help to conceive,

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she was doing was only

all

drew out a piece of wet wipe from the bedside table, and

hands slowly, thoroughly cleaning them as though he

any joints or nooks and tossed