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 in annoyance, “I’ll

later. Don’t worry.”

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

dial tone. Then, he threw back

herself by taking a few deep breaths. Finally, she

come

minutes later, sounds of hurried footsteps echoed from the other

corridor. The woman appeared cool and eye–catching as

with streaks of silver flipped along

she briskly walked

the astonished looks that greeted her were no longer

raised her bushy brows as she

was so pale that she

from reprimanding her in a hushed

his dreams with Joan.

ovulation injection?”

Sept

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word. Her marriage with Sean

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because it was his grandfather, Colby, who forced

didn’t refuse the marriage when it was proposed to

rejoiced because nobody knew that she had held

It was only

a first love named Joan Palmer, and Colby thought

Graham Family. That was why

her give up.

to acknowledge

their marriage from the public for the past

didn’t care about that and thought that she would

She hoped that one

genuinely want to spend his days

had returned, Abigail realized just how silly she had

she arrived, she took a shower and stared at the

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with a bitter heart. One more

or for Sean, this will be

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

man’s hot breath was right

her body burning from the

legs instinctively. Before she could do anything, Sean

down. Then, he rolled on

above her legs

groggy from slumber, she quickly

arms around his neck

her

her clothes,

me back

but she put

“Yes. I just came up with

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was always the one taking the

and even sexual positions; as

help to conceive, she

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that everything she

baby, he lost all

of wet wipe

thoroughly cleaning them as though he

something filthy. He didn’t miss any