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, “I’ll be

later. Don’t worry.”

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wasted no time hanging up. Abigail’s heart

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

few deep breaths.

Smith, to come and

minutes later, sounds of hurried footsteps

corridor. The woman appeared cool and eye–catching

dyed in blue with streaks of silver flipped along with

she briskly walked

astonished looks that greeted

bushy brows as she went straight

so pale that she could rival a ghost

sorry but couldn’t stop herself from reprimanding her in

his dreams with Joan. What’s the point of you

ovulation injection?”

Sept

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head without a word. Her marriage with Sean

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it was his

marriage when

that

only

had a first love named Joan Palmer, and Colby

That was why

her give up.

was too embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail as his

their marriage from the public for

care about that and thought that

that one day he would be able to forget

spend his days

realized just how silly

a shower and

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with a bitter heart. One

or for Sean,

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a pair of big, cold palms carrying a little trace

by the waist. The man’s hot breath was right

felt her body burning from the warmth. She blinked awake

Before she could do anything, Sean

and swiftly pinned them down. Then, he rolled on

above her legs

her eyes were still groggy from slumber, she quickly

she laced her arms around

and arching her

her clothes, and

called me

but she put on a

just came up with

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they were together, she was always the one

even

that could help to conceive, she was willing

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Sean was reminded that everything she was

a baby, he lost all interest

wet wipe from the

thoroughly cleaning them as though

filthy. He didn’t miss any joints or nooks