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

still no sight of Grace, he

today, and I asked her to supervise. Is something the matter? Do you need to find

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skipped a beat

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

confusion, Louise took the initiative to explain, “I was afraid the renovation wouldn’t be finished on time, so I asked

it’s nothing. My mother wanted me to ask her

internally harbored doubts about what he had

the time on his watch, it was already past 6 o’clock. Just then, his phone rang, and he stepped outside to answer

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

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

his car drove away.

clenched her fists

to the company, she thought.

the newly

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

in, he could hear the buzzing sound of mosquitoes.

and saw Brian with a stern expression.

you’re here?” Grace paused

of hesitation, a mosquito

brow and walked over, gently pressing on

calloused palm pressed gently against Grace’s face, momentarily

couldn’t help but scold, “Are you foolish? Standing

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

marks looked particularly

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

annoying mosquitoes flying around. He grabbed her

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was on Inside the car, and

into the seat.

through the trunk, pulled out a bottle

it and applied the flora water to each red mark on her

Itchiness.

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

hands on the steering

“Aren’t

Brian asked, not directly

“Rumble-”

that humorously mimicked a deceptive tactic, prompting her to