Falling for My Contractual Wife

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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

still no sight of Grace,

I asked her to supervise. Is something the matter? Do you need to

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heart skipped a beat for a moment.

thought, ‘On such a hot day, with no electricity there yet

so I asked the workers to do an extra two hours of overtime. Brian, do you have something urgent to talk

nothing. My mother wanted me to ask her about something.”

slow “Oh but internally harbored doubts

watch, it was already past 6 o’clock. Just then, his phone

the living room and said to Louise, “There’s an urgent matter at the

perhaps intending to offer to accompany

car drove away.

clenched her fists

to the

to the newly purchased villa.

sky was nearly dark, yet the workers continued their overtime, hustling at the construction site. Grace paced back and forth

frowned. As soon as he stepped in, he could

hearing footsteps, Grace turned around and saw Brian

come you’re here?” Grace

moment of hesitation, a mosquito

his brow and walked over,

pressed gently against Grace’s face, momentarily causing her to freeze in surprise.

but scold, “Are you foolish? Standing here, letting

large bumps had already formed on her forehead, while her fair and smooth legs were covered in tiny red welts.

fair skin, those red marks looked particularly

have any other choice?” Grace asked him back while scratching the itchy

around. He

다

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air conditioning was on Inside the

into

a bottle of flora water, and handed

the flora water to each red mark on her body. The cooling sensation relieved much of

Itchiness.

returned the flora water to him, saying, “Thank you.”

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

“Aren’t

not directly answering her

“Rumble-”

that humorously mimicked