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

still no sight of Grace, he couldn’t resist

to supervise. Is something the matter? Do

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skipped a beat for a

hot day, with no electricity there yet and no air conditioning,

afraid the renovation wouldn’t be finished on time, so I asked the

to ask her about

let out a slow “Oh but internally harbored

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

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

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

car

her fists silently.

to the company, she

to the newly purchased villa.

overtime, hustling at the construction site. Grace paced back and forth inside, occasionally gesturing with her

frowned. As soon as he stepped in, he could hear the buzzing sound of mosquitoes.

and saw Brian with a

you’re here?” Grace

of hesitation, a mosquito landed on her

over, gently pressing on her

pressed gently against Grace’s face, momentarily causing her

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

forehead, while her fair and

skin, those red marks

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

away the annoying mosquitoes flying around. He

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Chapter 30

seat by him. The air conditioning was on Inside the

wearily into the seat.

rummaged through the trunk, pulled out a bottle of flora

mark on her body. The cooling sensation relieved much of

Itchiness.

she returned the flora water to him, saying, “Thank

placed it back, resting his hands on the steering wheel,

“Aren’t

eaten?‘ Brian asked, not

“Rumble-”

sound that humorously mimicked a deceptive tactic, prompting her to

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