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

later. Don’t worry.”

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hanging up. Abigail’s

monotonous dial tone. Then, he threw back

deep

to come and

of hurried footsteps

cool and

streaks of

she briskly walked down the

that greeted her were no longer a surprise,

she went straight to Abigail.

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

stop herself from reprimanding her

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

ovulation injection?”

Sept

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without a word. Her marriage with Sean was not

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was his grandfather,

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

that she

was only after their marriage

first love named Joan Palmer, and Colby thought she

Graham Family. That was

her give up.

embarrassed to acknowledge

public for the

didn’t care about that and thought that she would one day be able

She hoped that one day he would be able to forget

want to spend his

Abigail realized

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

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the night with a bitter heart. One more time,

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

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

man’s hot breath was

she felt her body burning

Before she could do anything, Sean

pinned them down. Then, he rolled on top of her

her legs

were still groggy

arms

her back

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

me back

but she put on a

I just came up with

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they were together, she was always

even sexual positions; as

that could help to conceive, she was willing to

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reminded that everything she was doing was only for

lost all interest in

of wet wipe from the bedside table, and

thoroughly cleaning

miss any