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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cut her off and grumbled in

later. Don’t worry.”

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he wasted no time hanging up.

tone. Then, he threw

few deep breaths. Finally, she called her

Smith, to come and pick her

later, sounds of hurried footsteps echoed

woman appeared cool and eye–catching as her

blue with streaks of

she briskly

greeted

raised her bushy brows as she went straight to

so pale that she could rival a ghost

stop herself from reprimanding her in a hushed

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

ovulation injection?”

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hung her head without a word. Her marriage with Sean

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was his grandfather, Colby,

refuse the marriage when

because nobody knew that

for many years. It was only after their marriage did she

love named Joan Palmer, and Colby thought she was

Family. That

her give up.

embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail as his wife,

public for the

and thought that she

one day he

want to spend his days

realized just how silly

took a shower

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prepared for the night with a bitter heart. One more

for

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night, a pair of big, cold palms carrying a little trace

man’s hot breath

burning from the warmth. She

instinctively. Before she could do

Then, he rolled on top of

above her

groggy from slumber,

So, she laced her arms around

her back

her clothes, and his breath raised

“You called me back

for a second, but she put on a smile

I just came up with a

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were together, she was always the one

injections, supplements, and even sexual

to conceive, she

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Sean was reminded that everything she was

all interest

drew out a piece of wet

his hands slowly, thoroughly cleaning

filthy. He didn’t miss any joints or nooks and tossed