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

her to supervise. Is something the matter? Do you need to find her for something?” Louise glanced at him and

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heart skipped a beat for

electricity there yet

time, so I asked the workers

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

harbored doubts about what

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

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

began to say something, perhaps intending to offer to accompany him,

his car

clenched her fists silently.

truly went to the

the

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

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

around and saw Brian with a

you’re here?” Grace paused in

a mosquito landed on her

walked over, gently pressing

against Grace’s

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

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

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

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

her a fierce glare, swatting away the annoying mosquitoes flying around. He grabbed her wrist

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him. The air conditioning was on Inside the car,

slumped wearily into the

rummaged through the trunk, pulled out a bottle of flora water, and

took it and applied the flora water to each red mark

Itchiness.

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

placed it back, resting his hands on the steering

asked, “Aren’t

asked, not directly answering her question.

“Rumble-”

that humorously mimicked a deceptive tactic, prompting her