Falling for My Contractual Wife

Chapter 30

However, soon, she realized she had been mistaken. She quickly discovered her error.

By around five in the afternoon, mosquitoes from the bushes outside the villa started flying in as the sun descended

In less than a minute, her legs were covered in mosquitoes, densely packed, and she couldn’t fend them off no matter how

much she swatted.

Those workers wore long sleeves and pants, causing almost all the mosquitoes to swarm around Grace Sherman, leaving her the sole target for their bites.

She had to stand up and walk around, yet the mosquitoes continued to chase after her.

Finally, it reached six o’clock, but the workers showed no sign of wrapping up for the day.

“Hey, it’s already six o’clock, why aren’t you guys finishing work?”

One of the workers installing wires said, “Young lady, Miss Adkins said this is a new house, and they must move in quick, so we have to work overtime until eight o’clock every day.”

“Eight o’clock” Grace gasped in disbelief.

She thought, Isn’t that practically killing me?

At Francis Group.

Brian Francis looked at the message on his phone; his expression darkened to the extreme.

The phone displayed a picture of Justin Vance and Grace strolling in the small garden outside the hospital. Grace had at radiant smile as she gazed at him affectionately

One of the nurses at their hospital took this photo and shared it with their nursing group.

Brian had a friend in the Cardiology Department at Southside Hospital. After hearing what Louise Adkins said last night, he

inquired whether ce had any romantic involvement with someone

As a result, his friend sent him this photo.

He stared at Grace’s smiling face in the photo, wishing he could pull her out of the screen and viciously tear apart her smile.

afternoon.

Growing increasingly furious, he left the office at five in the after

When he arrived home, Grace wasn’t there. Louise kept pulling him to discuss the plans for starting a studio, and he never had the chance to ask where Grace was

dinner, with still no sight of Grace, he

something the matter? Do you need to find her for something?” Louise glanced at him and

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beat for

yet and no air conditioning, why hasn’t she returned by

his confusion, Louise took the initiative to explain, “I was afraid the renovation wouldn’t be finished on time, so I asked the workers to do an extra two hours of overtime. Brian, do you have something urgent to talk to her about?”

it’s nothing. My mother wanted me to ask her about something.” Brian replied.

let out a slow “Oh but internally harbored doubts about what he

on his watch, it was already past 6 o’clock. Just then, his phone rang, and he stepped outside to

“There’s an urgent matter at the company. I need

something, perhaps intending to offer to accompany him, but before she

enough, his car drove

clenched her

to the company, she

drove to the newly purchased

site. Grace paced back and forth inside,

he could hear the buzzing sound of

turned around and saw

here?” Grace paused in

hesitation, a mosquito landed on her cheek.

his brow and walked over, gently pressing on her

palm pressed gently against Grace’s face, momentarily causing

reaction, Brian couldn’t help but scold, “Are you foolish? Standing here, letting mosquitoes bite you!”

formed on her forehead, while her fair

fair skin, those red marks

do? Do I have any other choice?” Grace asked him back while scratching the

a fierce glare, swatting away the annoying mosquitoes flying around. He grabbed her wrist in frustration and pulled her

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by him. The air conditioning was

into

a bottle of flora water,

took it and applied the flora water to each red mark on her body. The cooling sensation

Itchiness.

water to him, saying, “Thank you.”

it back, resting his hands on the steering wheel, but didn’t start the

asked, “Aren’t we leaving?”

Brian asked, not directly

“Rumble-”

fittingly, made a sound that humorously mimicked a deceptive tactic, prompting her to