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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cut her off and

later. Don’t worry.”

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that, he wasted no time hanging up. Abigail’s heart sank to the

dial tone.

taking a few deep breaths. Finally, she called her

come and pick

of hurried footsteps echoed from

cool and eye–catching

dyed in blue with streaks of silver flipped

as she briskly

that greeted her were

her bushy brows as she went straight to

pale that she could rival a ghost

stop herself from reprimanding her in a

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

ovulation injection?”

Sept

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a word. Her marriage with

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his grandfather, Colby, who

the marriage when it was

because nobody knew that she

was only after their

had a first love named Joan Palmer, and Colby

Graham Family. That was why he used

her give up.

was too embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail

their marriage from the public for the

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

one

genuinely want to spend his days with

had returned, Abigail realized

took a shower and

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prepared for the night with a bitter heart. One more

for myself or for Sean, this

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a pair of big, cold palms

The man’s hot breath was

felt her body burning from the warmth. She blinked awake

she

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

her

were still groggy from slumber,

arms around his

and arching her back

swept over her clothes, and his breath

called me back just for

but she put on

came up with

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they were together, she was

supplements, and even sexual positions; as long

to conceive, she was

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she was doing

a baby, he lost all

drew out a piece of wet wipe

his hands slowly, thoroughly cleaning them

He didn’t miss any joints