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

later. Don’t worry.”

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

dial tone.

herself by taking a few deep breaths.

come and pick

later, sounds of hurried footsteps echoed from the other end

appeared cool and eye–catching

hair dyed in blue with streaks of

briskly walked down the

greeted her were no longer

she went straight to Abigail.

so pale that she could rival a

stop herself from

the life of his dreams with Joan.

ovulation injection?”

Sept

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word. Her

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one because it was his grandfather, Colby,

didn’t refuse the marriage when it was proposed to

that she

many years. It was only after their

a first love named Joan Palmer, and Colby thought she

the Graham Family. That was why he

her give up.

too embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail

marriage from the public

that and thought that she would one day be able

She hoped that one day he would

want to spend

that Joan had returned, Abigail realized just how

a shower and stared

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with a bitter heart.

for Sean, this

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

by the waist. The man’s hot breath

felt her body burning from the warmth. She

Before she could do

Then, he rolled on top

her

her eyes were still groggy from slumber, she

arms around

and arching her back to welcome

clothes, and

“You called me back just for

muscles turned rigid for a second, but she put

I just came up

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was always the one

ovulation injections, supplements, and even sexual positions;

conceive, she was willing to

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everything she was doing was only

he lost all interest in continuing. So, he

a piece of wet

thoroughly cleaning them as though

He didn’t miss any joints or