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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off and grumbled in annoyance, “I’ll be

later. Don’t worry.”

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up. Abigail’s heart sank to the

to the monotonous dial tone. Then, he threw back her head

by taking a few deep breaths. Finally,

come and pick her

sounds of hurried footsteps echoed from

The woman appeared cool and eye–catching

hair dyed in blue with streaks of silver flipped along

briskly walked

Luna, the astonished looks that greeted her were

brows as she

Abigail’s face was so pale that she could rival a ghost at this

herself from reprimanding her in a hushed

dreams with Joan. What’s the

ovulation injection?”

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head without a word.

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was his grandfather, Colby, who

refuse the marriage when it was proposed to

that she

years. It was only after their marriage

a first love named Joan Palmer, and Colby

Family. That

her give up.

embarrassed to acknowledge

their marriage from the public for

that and thought that she

heart. She hoped that one day he would be able

want to spend

had returned, Abigail realized just how

took a shower

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for the night with a bitter heart. One more

for Sean, this will be

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

held Abigail by the waist. The man’s hot breath

body burning from the warmth. She blinked

she could do

swiftly pinned them down. Then, he rolled on

above her

still groggy from

laced her arms around his neck before

her back to

over her clothes, and his breath raised a couple

“You called me

but she put on a

I just came

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together, she was

injections, supplements, and even sexual

could help to conceive, she was willing to

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was reminded that everything she

he lost all

wet

his hands slowly, thoroughly cleaning

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