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

later. Don’t worry.”

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he wasted no time hanging up.

dial tone.

few deep breaths. Finally, she called her

come and pick her

sounds of hurried footsteps echoed from

The woman appeared cool and eye–catching

with streaks of

as she briskly walked

the astonished looks that greeted her

brows as she went straight to Abigail.

so pale that she could rival

stop herself from

his dreams with Joan. What’s the point

ovulation injection?”

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her head without a word. Her marriage with Sean was not

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was his grandfather, Colby, who

Abigail didn’t refuse the marriage when it

because nobody knew that she had held a

years. It was only after their marriage did she discover

love named Joan Palmer, and Colby thought she was

That was why he used Abigail

her give up.

was too embarrassed to acknowledge

the public for

care about that and thought that she would one

icy heart. She hoped that one day

to spend

Abigail realized just how silly she

arrived, she took a shower and stared

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prepared for the night with a bitter

for myself or for Sean, this will be

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pair of big, cold palms carrying a little

man’s hot breath was right next to

body burning from the warmth. She

she could do

pinned them down. Then, he rolled

her

groggy from slumber, she quickly realized

laced her arms around his neck

her back

over her clothes, and his breath raised a couple

me back just for

a second, but she

just came up

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was

ovulation injections, supplements, and even sexual positions;

that could help to conceive, she was

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was reminded that everything she

he lost all interest in continuing. So, he shoved

drew out a piece of wet

his hands slowly, thoroughly cleaning them

He didn’t miss any joints or nooks and tossed