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

dinner, with still no sight of Grace, he couldn’t resist asking. “Where’s Grace?”

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

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skipped a beat for a moment.

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

Louise took the initiative to explain, “I was afraid the renovation wouldn’t be finished on time, so I asked the workers to

nothing. My mother wanted me to

let out a slow “Oh but internally harbored doubts about what he

on his watch, it was already past 6 o’clock.

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

perhaps intending to offer to accompany him, but before she

enough, his car

clenched her fists

truly went to the company,

drove to the

overtime, hustling at the construction site. Grace paced back and

as he stepped in, he could

turned around and saw Brian with a

here?” Grace

of hesitation, a mosquito landed on

brow and walked over, gently pressing on

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

scold, “Are you foolish?

her

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

other choice?” Grace asked him

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

다

JMM

Chapter 30

him. The air conditioning was on Inside the car, and a refreshing breeze greeted

slumped wearily into the seat.

bottle of flora water, and handed it to

and applied the flora water to each red mark on her body. The cooling sensation relieved much

Itchiness.

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

back, resting his hands on the steering wheel, but didn’t start the car.

“Aren’t we leaving?”

asked, not directly answering

“Rumble-”

stomach, fittingly, made a sound that humorously mimicked a