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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her off and grumbled in annoyance, “I’ll

later. Don’t worry.”

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

listened to the monotonous dial tone.

herself by taking a few deep breaths.

to come and pick her

minutes later, sounds of hurried footsteps echoed from the other

woman appeared cool and eye–catching as her

hair dyed in blue with streaks

as she briskly

the astonished looks that greeted her

as she went straight to Abigail. When she

was so pale that she could rival

herself from reprimanding

living the life of his dreams with Joan. What’s

ovulation injection?”

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head without a word.

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it was his

when

nobody knew that she had held

only after their marriage

named Joan Palmer, and Colby thought she

the Graham Family. That was why he used Abigail to

her give up.

too embarrassed to acknowledge

public for the past

that she would one

heart. She hoped that one day

want to spend his

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. One more

or for Sean, this will be

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

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

her body burning from the warmth. She blinked awake

she could do anything, Sean

down. Then,

above her

eyes were still groggy from slumber,

arms around his neck

arching her back to

man’s eyes swept over her clothes, and his breath raised a

me back just

a second, but she

just came

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she was always the one taking the

ovulation injections, supplements, and even sexual positions;

to conceive, she

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she was doing was only

all interest in continuing.

out a piece of wet wipe from the bedside table,

slowly, thoroughly cleaning them

filthy. He didn’t miss any joints