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 annoyance, “I’ll

later. Don’t worry.”

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hanging up. Abigail’s

listened to the monotonous dial tone.

taking a few deep breaths. Finally, she called

Luna Smith, to come

of hurried footsteps echoed from the other

corridor. The woman appeared cool

streaks of silver

briskly walked

Luna, the astonished looks that greeted her were no

as she went straight to Abigail.

that she

couldn’t stop herself from reprimanding her in a hushed

life of his dreams with Joan. What’s the

ovulation injection?”

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her head without a word. Her marriage with

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because it was his grandfather, Colby, who forced them

Abigail didn’t refuse the marriage when it

because nobody knew that she had

was only after their marriage did she

Joan Palmer, and Colby thought she

Family. That

her give up.

too embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail

from the public for

that and thought that she would one day be

hoped that one day he would be able

to spend his days

had returned, Abigail realized just how silly she

a shower and stared at

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with a bitter heart.

Whether it’s for myself or for Sean, this

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the middle of the night, a pair of big, cold

waist. The man’s

burning from

legs instinctively. Before she could do anything, Sean

and swiftly pinned them down. Then, he rolled

her legs

still groggy from slumber, she quickly realized

her arms around his neck before raising

her back to welcome

clothes, and his breath raised a

me

turned rigid for a second, but she put on a

I just came up with

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they were together, she was always the

and even

anything that could help to conceive, she was willing to

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was reminded that everything she was doing was

he lost all interest in

a piece of wet

hands slowly, thoroughly cleaning them as though he

He didn’t miss any joints or nooks and