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

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

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heart skipped a beat for

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

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,

to ask her about something.” Brian

but internally harbored doubts about

at the time on his watch, it was already past 6 o’clock. Just

Louise, “There’s an urgent

to offer to accompany him,

car drove away.

clenched her fists silently.

truly went to

the newly purchased

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

in, he could

hearing footsteps, Grace turned around and saw Brian with a stern expression.

come you’re here?” Grace paused

brief moment of hesitation, a mosquito landed on her cheek.

his brow and walked over, gently pressing on her cheek.

palm pressed gently against Grace’s face, momentarily

her reaction, Brian couldn’t help but scold, “Are

while her fair and smooth legs were covered in

marks looked particularly distressing and stood out

I have any other choice?” Grace

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

다

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conditioning was on Inside the car, and a

wearily into the seat.

rummaged through the trunk, pulled out a bottle of

each red mark on her body. The cooling sensation

Itchiness.

the flora water

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

“Aren’t we

asked, not directly answering

“Rumble-”

sound that humorously mimicked a deceptive tactic, prompting her to