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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and grumbled in annoyance, “I’ll be

later. Don’t worry.”

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time hanging up. Abigail’s heart

tone. Then, he threw back

herself by taking a few deep breaths. Finally, she called

to come and pick her

sounds of hurried footsteps echoed

The woman appeared cool and eye–catching as

streaks of silver flipped along

she briskly walked down the

looks that greeted her were no longer a

she went straight to

face was so pale that she could rival a ghost

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

the life of his dreams with Joan. What’s the

ovulation injection?”

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word. Her marriage with Sean was

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was his grandfather, Colby,

the marriage when it was proposed to her

nobody knew that she had held a torch

for many years. It was only after their marriage did she discover

love named Joan Palmer, and Colby

the Graham Family. That was why he

her give up.

Sean was too embarrassed to acknowledge

marriage from the public for

that and thought that she would one day be able

heart. She hoped that one day he would be

genuinely want to spend his days

Joan had returned, Abigail realized

she took a shower and stared at the lingerie she

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with a

for Sean, this will

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pair of big, cold palms carrying a little

by the waist. The man’s hot

burning from the

legs instinctively. Before she could do anything, Sean grabbed

and swiftly pinned them down. Then, he rolled on

her legs

her eyes were still groggy from slumber,

she laced her arms around his neck before

her back to

over her clothes, and his breath

me

rigid for a second, but she put on a

“Yes. I just came up with

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together, she was always the one taking

ovulation injections, supplements, and even sexual

anything that could help to conceive, she was

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everything she

lost all

of wet wipe from

hands slowly, thoroughly cleaning them as though he

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