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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up. Abigail’s heart sank to the pits

dial tone. Then, he threw back her

taking a few deep

to come and pick her

sounds of hurried footsteps echoed from the other

cool and eye–catching

streaks of silver flipped along

briskly walked down the

greeted her were no longer a surprise,

brows as she went

pale that she could rival a ghost at

stop herself from reprimanding

his dreams with Joan. What’s the point

ovulation injection?”

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hung her head without a word. Her marriage

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because it was his grandfather, Colby, who forced

refuse the marriage when it was

knew that she had held a

only after their

love named Joan Palmer, and

enough for the Graham Family. That was

her give up.

too embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail as his wife,

their marriage from the public

about that and thought that she

She hoped that one

genuinely want to spend his days

that Joan had returned, Abigail realized just how silly she had

took a shower and stared at the lingerie she

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a bitter heart. One

for

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the middle of the night, a pair of big,

the waist. The man’s hot

body burning from the

legs instinctively. Before she could

down. Then, he

above her legs

groggy from slumber,

So, she laced her arms around his

arching her back to

eyes swept over her clothes, and his breath raised a couple

me back just

second, but she put

came

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was always

and even sexual positions; as

to conceive, she was willing to give it a

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reminded that everything she was doing was only

baby, he lost all

of wet wipe from the bedside

slowly, thoroughly cleaning them as

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