I Want a Divorce 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,

return home. When they were

he would spend

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he only cut her off and grumbled in annoyance, “I’ll be

later. Don’t worry.”

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

to the monotonous dial tone. Then, he threw

a few deep breaths. Finally, she called

Smith, to come

sounds of hurried footsteps echoed from the other

woman appeared cool and

blue with streaks

briskly walked down

the astonished looks that greeted her were no

as she went straight to Abigail. When she

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

couldn’t stop herself from reprimanding her in a

dreams with Joan. What’s

ovulation injection?”

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hung her head without a word. Her marriage with Sean

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was his

when

that

only after their marriage did she

named Joan Palmer, and Colby thought she

for the Graham Family. That was why he used

her give up.

embarrassed to acknowledge Abigail as his

public for the past

and thought that she

She hoped that one day he would

want to spend his

that Joan had returned, Abigail realized just how silly she

she took a shower and stared at the lingerie she

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prepared for the night with a

for myself or for Sean, this will

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

The man’s hot

felt her body burning from the

her legs instinctively. Before she could do

down. Then, he rolled on top of

her legs

groggy from slumber,

laced her arms around his neck

arching her back

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

me back just

but she put on a

I just came up with

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