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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only cut her off and grumbled

later. Don’t worry.”

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up. Abigail’s heart sank to the

dial tone. Then,

herself by taking a few deep

to come and pick

of hurried footsteps

woman appeared cool and eye–catching

dyed in blue with streaks of silver flipped along with

as she briskly walked

greeted her were no longer a

she went straight to Abigail. When she

she could rival a ghost at

herself from reprimanding her in a

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

ovulation injection?”

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a word. Her marriage with Sean

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was his

when it was proposed to her

secretly rejoiced because nobody knew that

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

first love named Joan

the Graham Family. That was

her give up.

too embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail

their marriage from the public for

that she would

one day

want to spend his days with

Joan had returned, Abigail realized just how silly she had

she arrived, she took a shower and stared at the lingerie she

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the night with a

or for Sean, this will

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

Abigail by the waist. The man’s

her body burning from the

legs instinctively. Before she could

down. Then, he rolled on top of

above her legs

eyes were still groggy from slumber,

laced her arms around his neck before raising

her back

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

me back

turned rigid for a second, but she put on

“Yes. I just came

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together, she was always the one taking

and even sexual positions; as long

was anything that could help to conceive,

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that everything she was

a baby, he lost all interest in continuing. So,

a piece of wet wipe from the bedside table, and

hands slowly, thoroughly cleaning them

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