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

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

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

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beat

thought, ‘On such a hot day, with no electricity there yet and no air conditioning, why hasn’t she returned by this

initiative to 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,

mother wanted me to ask her about something.” Brian

a slow “Oh but internally harbored doubts about

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

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

intending to offer to accompany him, but before she

his car drove away.

clenched her

went to

drove to the newly purchased villa.

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

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

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

here?” Grace paused in surprise.

that brief moment of hesitation, a

brow and walked over, gently pressing

calloused palm pressed gently against Grace’s face, momentarily causing

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

her forehead, while her fair and

her exceptionally fair skin, those red marks looked particularly distressing and stood

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

man shot her a fierce glare, swatting away the annoying mosquitoes flying around. He grabbed her wrist in frustration and

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into the passenger seat by him. The air conditioning was on Inside

slumped wearily into the

trunk, pulled out a bottle of flora water, and handed

red mark on her body. The

Itchiness.

water to him, saying,

hands on the steering wheel, but didn’t

asked, “Aren’t we

not directly answering her

“Rumble-”

humorously mimicked a deceptive tactic, prompting