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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no time hanging up. Abigail’s

dial tone. Then, he threw back her head

deep breaths. Finally,

Luna Smith, to come and pick her

of hurried footsteps echoed from

The woman appeared cool and eye–catching as her

streaks of silver flipped along with

as she briskly

greeted her were no longer a

her bushy brows as she

that she could rival

from reprimanding her

his dreams with

ovulation injection?”

Sept

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head without a word. Her

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was his grandfather, Colby,

didn’t refuse the marriage when it was proposed to her

nobody knew that she had

It was only after their marriage did she

first love named Joan Palmer, and Colby thought she

the Graham Family. That was why he

her give up.

to acknowledge Abigail as his

the public for the past

didn’t care about that and thought that she would

hoped that one day he

spend

Abigail realized just how silly

shower and stared

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the night with a bitter heart. One more

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

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night, a pair of big, cold palms carrying a little trace

waist. The man’s hot breath was right next

she felt her body burning from the warmth. She blinked awake

Before she could

pinned them down. Then,

above her legs

groggy from slumber, she

she laced her arms around his neck

and arching her

clothes, and

me back just

rigid for a second, but she put on

came up with

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she was always

even sexual positions; as

to conceive, she

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reminded that everything she was doing

of having a baby, he lost all interest in

piece of wet wipe from

his hands slowly, thoroughly cleaning them as though he

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