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

renovation started today, and I asked her to supervise. Is something the matter? Do you need to find her for something?” Louise glanced at him and said

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day, with no electricity there yet and no

“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, do you have something urgent to talk

it’s nothing. My mother wanted me to

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

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

living room and said to Louise, “There’s an urgent matter at the company. I need to go back.”

perhaps intending to offer to accompany him, but before she

enough, his car

clenched her fists silently.

to the company,

drove to the newly purchased villa.

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

he stepped in, he could hear the buzzing sound of

footsteps, Grace turned around and saw Brian with a

here?” Grace paused in

hesitation, a mosquito landed on her cheek.

brow and walked over, gently pressing

against Grace’s face, momentarily causing her to freeze

“Are

had already formed on her forehead, while her fair and smooth legs were covered in

marks looked particularly distressing and stood out

choice?” Grace asked him back while scratching the

around. He grabbed her wrist in frustration and pulled her out, leading

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was on Inside the

wearily into the

through the trunk, pulled out a bottle of

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

Itchiness.

the flora water to him,

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

asked, “Aren’t

Brian asked, not

“Rumble-”

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