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 couldn’t resist asking. “Where’s Grace?”

to supervise. Is something the matter? Do you need to find her for something?” Louise glanced at him and said calmly.

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beat for a

a hot day, with no electricity there yet and no air conditioning, why hasn’t she

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

wanted me to ask

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

past 6 o’clock. Just then, his phone rang,

Louise, “There’s an urgent matter at the company.

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

his car

her fists

truly went to the

drove to the newly purchased

site. Grace paced back and forth inside, occasionally gesturing with her

he could hear the buzzing

footsteps, Grace turned around and saw Brian with a stern

here?” Grace paused

brief moment of hesitation, a mosquito landed on her

and walked over, gently

palm pressed gently against Grace’s

but scold, “Are you foolish?

forehead, while her fair and smooth legs were covered in

skin, those red marks

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

the annoying mosquitoes flying around. He grabbed her wrist in frustration and

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Chapter 30

him. The air conditioning was on Inside the car,

into

pulled out a bottle

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

Itchiness.

flora water

his hands on the steering

“Aren’t we leaving?”

not directly answering her question.

“Rumble-”

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

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