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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and grumbled

later. Don’t worry.”

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he wasted no time hanging up. Abigail’s heart

the monotonous dial tone. Then, he

deep breaths. Finally, she

Smith, to come

sounds of hurried footsteps echoed from

cool and eye–catching

hair dyed in blue with streaks of

briskly walked

that greeted her

as she

face was so pale that she could rival a ghost at this rate,

stop herself from reprimanding

life of his dreams with Joan.

ovulation injection?”

Sept

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head without a word.

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because it was his grandfather, Colby, who

marriage when it was proposed to her

rejoiced because nobody knew that

It was only after

Joan Palmer, and Colby

enough for the Graham Family. That

her give up.

embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail as his wife,

public

thought that she would one day be able

heart. She hoped that one day he would be

to spend his

had returned, Abigail realized just how silly she

arrived, she took a shower and stared at

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a bitter heart. One more

or for

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middle of the night, a pair of

the waist. The man’s hot

felt her body burning from the warmth. She blinked

legs instinctively. Before she could do anything,

pinned them down. Then, he rolled on top

her legs

her eyes were still groggy

she laced her arms around his

arching her back

clothes, and his breath raised a couple

me back just for

but she

I just came

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together, she was always the one taking the

even sexual positions;

was anything that could help to conceive,

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reminded that everything she was

a baby, he lost all

of wet wipe from the bedside

cleaning them as though he

didn’t miss any joints or nooks