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

no sight of Grace, he

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

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a beat for a

yet and no air

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

me to ask

a slow “Oh but internally harbored doubts

already past 6 o’clock. Just then, his

and said to Louise, “There’s an urgent matter at the company. I need to go back.”

intending to offer to accompany him, but before she could, he had already briskly departed.

car

her fists

to

drove to the newly

yet the workers continued their overtime, hustling at the construction site. Grace paced

in, he could hear the buzzing sound

hearing footsteps, Grace turned around and saw Brian with

here?” Grace paused in

moment of hesitation, a mosquito landed on her

and walked over, gently pressing on

calloused palm pressed gently against Grace’s face, momentarily causing her

scold, “Are

forehead, while her fair and smooth legs were covered in tiny red welts.

marks looked particularly distressing and stood out

can I do? Do I have any other choice?” Grace

man shot her a fierce glare, swatting away the annoying mosquitoes flying around. He

다

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the passenger seat by him. The air conditioning was on Inside the car, and a

slumped wearily into the seat.

out a bottle of

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

Itchiness.

flora water to him, saying, “Thank

on the

“Aren’t

not directly

“Rumble-”

fittingly, made a sound that humorously mimicked a deceptive