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 couldn’t resist

to supervise. Is something the matter? Do you

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skipped a beat

a hot day, with no electricity there yet and no air conditioning,

“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

mother wanted me to ask her about something.” Brian replied.

a slow “Oh but internally harbored doubts

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

and said to Louise, “There’s an

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

car

her

he truly went to the

drove to the newly

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

he stepped in, he could hear the buzzing sound

footsteps, Grace turned around and saw Brian

come you’re here?” Grace paused in

a mosquito landed on

over, gently

slightly calloused palm pressed gently against Grace’s face, momentarily causing her to freeze in surprise.

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

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

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

choice?”

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

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him. The air conditioning was on Inside the car,

wearily into

bottle of flora water, and

water to each red mark on

Itchiness.

the flora water to him,

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

asked, “Aren’t we leaving?”

Brian asked, not

“Rumble-”

mimicked a deceptive tactic, prompting her