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

later. Don’t worry.”

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

monotonous dial tone. Then, he threw back

herself by taking a few deep

Smith, to come

sounds of hurried footsteps echoed from the other

The woman appeared cool and

dyed in blue with streaks

as she briskly walked down

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

brows as she went straight to Abigail. When

face was so pale that she could

stop herself from

life of his dreams with

ovulation injection?”

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hung her head without a word. Her marriage with Sean

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because it was his grandfather, Colby,

refuse the marriage when it was proposed to

rejoiced because nobody knew that she had held a

was only after their

named Joan Palmer, and Colby thought she was

the Graham Family. That was why he

her give up.

to acknowledge Abigail as

the public for the

and thought that she would one day be

icy heart. She hoped that one

want to spend his days with

Abigail realized just how silly she

she took a shower

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for the night with a

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

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of the night, a pair of big, cold

by the waist. The man’s

and she felt her body burning from the

legs instinctively. Before she could do anything, Sean

them down. Then,

her

still groggy from slumber, she quickly realized

she laced her arms around his neck before raising

arching her back to welcome

clothes, and his breath raised

me back just

second, but she

I just came

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she was always the

and even sexual positions; as

anything that could help to conceive, she was willing to

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reminded that everything she was doing was only

having a baby, he lost all interest

piece of wet wipe from

his hands slowly, thoroughly cleaning them as

filthy. He didn’t miss any joints or nooks and