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

sight of Grace, he couldn’t

villa’s 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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beat for a

day, with no electricity there yet and no air conditioning, why hasn’t she returned by this

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

harbored

glanced 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

to Louise, “There’s an urgent matter

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

enough, his car

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 her hands

he stepped in, he could hear the buzzing

and saw Brian with a stern expression.

come you’re here?” Grace paused in surprise.

hesitation, a mosquito landed on her

furrowed his brow and walked over, gently pressing

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

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

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

skin, those red marks

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

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

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him. The air conditioning was on Inside

slumped wearily into the

trunk, pulled out a bottle of flora water,

mark on her body. The cooling sensation relieved much

Itchiness.

the flora water to him,

the steering

“Aren’t we leaving?”

Brian asked, not

“Rumble-”

sound that humorously mimicked a deceptive tactic, prompting her to