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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cut her off and grumbled in

later. Don’t worry.”

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

to the monotonous dial tone.

deep breaths. Finally, she

Luna Smith, to come and

of hurried footsteps echoed from

woman appeared cool and

in blue with streaks

as she briskly walked

greeted

bushy brows as she went straight to Abigail.

was so pale that she could rival

stop herself from reprimanding her in

of his dreams with Joan. What’s

ovulation injection?”

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word. Her marriage with

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because it was his grandfather,

marriage when it

rejoiced because nobody knew that she had held a

for many years. It was only after their marriage

named Joan

That was why he used Abigail

her give up.

too embarrassed to acknowledge

marriage from the public

about that and thought that she would one day be able

one day he would be able to

spend his

realized just how

shower and

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with a bitter

it’s for myself or for Sean, this will be the last

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night, a pair of big,

man’s hot breath was

body burning from the warmth.

her legs instinctively. Before she

them down. Then, he rolled

her

still groggy from slumber, she quickly realized

happening. So, she laced her arms around his

and arching her back to

clothes, and

called me

for a second, but she put on a smile the

came up

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together, she was always

and even sexual positions; as long

was anything that could help to conceive,

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that everything she

of having a baby, he lost all interest in continuing. So,

drew out a piece of wet wipe from

thoroughly cleaning

He didn’t miss any joints