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 annoyance,

later. Don’t worry.”

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no time hanging up. Abigail’s

listened to the monotonous dial tone. Then, he threw back her head

deep

to come

of hurried footsteps echoed from

The woman appeared cool and eye–catching

with streaks of silver flipped along

as she briskly

the astonished looks that greeted her were no longer a surprise,

her bushy brows as she went straight to

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

sorry but couldn’t stop herself from reprimanding her in a

his dreams with Joan. What’s

ovulation injection?”

Sept

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word. Her marriage with Sean was not

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because it was his grandfather, Colby, who

the marriage when it was proposed

because nobody knew that she had held

only after their marriage did

a first love named Joan Palmer, and Colby

Graham Family. That was why he used

her give up.

to acknowledge

marriage from the public

that she would

icy heart. She hoped that one day he would be able to forget

want to spend

that Joan had returned, Abigail realized just how silly

she arrived, she took a shower and stared at

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prepared for the night with a

it’s for myself or for Sean, this

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the middle of the night, a pair of

The man’s hot

her body burning from the warmth. She blinked awake

her legs instinctively. Before she could do

pinned them down. Then,

her legs

were still groggy from slumber, she quickly

she laced her arms around his neck

and arching her back to

her clothes, and his breath raised

me back

second, but she put on a

just came up with a

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together, she was

ovulation injections, supplements, and even sexual positions;

could help to conceive, she was willing

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she

having a baby, he lost all interest in continuing.

drew out a piece of wet wipe from the

his hands slowly, thoroughly cleaning

miss any joints