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

later. Don’t worry.”

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no time hanging up. Abigail’s heart sank

monotonous dial tone. Then, he

a few deep breaths.

to come and pick her

minutes later, sounds of hurried footsteps echoed from

woman appeared cool

blue with streaks of

she briskly

greeted her

her bushy brows as she went straight to

face was so pale that she could rival a ghost at

from reprimanding her

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

ovulation injection?”

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hung her head without a word.

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his grandfather, Colby, who forced them

didn’t refuse the marriage when it was proposed to

secretly rejoiced because nobody knew that she

only

a first love named Joan Palmer, and

for the Graham Family. That was why he used Abigail

her give up.

was too embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail as his

public for

didn’t care about that and thought that she

She hoped that one day he would

want to spend his days with

had returned, Abigail realized just how silly she

a shower

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night with a

or for Sean, this will be the last

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of big, cold palms carrying a little trace

the waist. The man’s hot breath was

and she felt her body burning from the warmth. She blinked awake

instinctively. Before she

down. Then, he rolled on top of her

her

were still groggy from slumber, she quickly realized

her arms around

her back to welcome

clothes, and his

called me

turned rigid for a second, but she put on a smile the

just came up with a new

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was always the

and even sexual positions; as long

to conceive, she was willing to give it

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everything she was doing was only for

of having a baby, he lost all interest in

a piece of wet wipe from the bedside table,

hands slowly, thoroughly cleaning them

He didn’t miss any joints