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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only cut her off and grumbled in annoyance, “I’ll

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

a few deep breaths. Finally, she called her

Smith, to come and pick her

hurried footsteps echoed from the

woman appeared cool and eye–catching as

blue with streaks

as she briskly walked

greeted her were no

as she went straight

pale that she could rival

couldn’t stop herself from reprimanding

with Joan.

ovulation injection?”

Sept

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word. Her marriage

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it was his grandfather,

when

secretly rejoiced because nobody knew that she had held

It was only after their marriage did she

named Joan Palmer, and Colby thought

That was why he used Abigail

her give up.

was too embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail as

from the public for the

that she would one day be

She hoped that one day he would be able

spend

Joan had returned, Abigail realized just how silly she

she arrived, she took a shower and stared

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for the night with a bitter heart. One more time,

myself or for Sean, this will be the

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

the waist. The man’s hot

she felt her body burning

her legs instinctively. Before she could do anything,

swiftly pinned them down. Then, he rolled on

above her legs

her eyes were still groggy from slumber,

happening. So, she laced her arms around his

her back to welcome

clothes, and

me back just

a second, but she put on a

came

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together, she was always the one taking

even sexual positions; as

anything that could help to conceive, she was willing to give it a

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she was doing was only

baby, he lost all interest in continuing. So, he shoved

piece of wet wipe from the

thoroughly cleaning them as

any joints or nooks