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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he only cut her off and grumbled in

later. Don’t worry.”

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up. Abigail’s heart sank

listened to the monotonous dial tone. Then, he threw back

herself by taking a few deep breaths. Finally, she

Luna Smith, to come and pick her

hurried footsteps echoed

woman appeared cool and eye–catching as

hair dyed in blue with streaks of

as she briskly walked down the

that greeted her were no longer a surprise,

raised her bushy brows as she went straight to Abigail. When she

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

from reprimanding her in

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

ovulation injection?”

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a word. Her marriage

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because it was his grandfather,

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

because nobody knew that she had

years. It was only after

Joan Palmer, and

That was why he used Abigail to

her give up.

acknowledge Abigail as his wife, they

public for the past three years.

that she would

that one day he would be able

spend

Abigail realized just how

a shower and stared

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a bitter heart. One more

myself or for Sean, this will be the last

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the middle of the night, a pair of big,

waist. The man’s hot breath was right next

felt her body burning from the warmth. She blinked

legs instinctively. Before she could do anything,

and swiftly pinned them down. Then,

above her

her eyes were still groggy from slumber,

So, she laced her arms around his

arching her back

clothes, and his breath

“You called me back just for

muscles turned rigid for a second, but she put on a

just came

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together, she was always the one taking

even sexual positions; as long

to conceive, she was

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that everything she was doing was only for

he lost all interest in continuing. So, he

of wet

cleaning them as

didn’t miss any joints or nooks