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

Is something the matter? Do

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a beat for a moment.

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

initiative to explain, “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 to her

it’s nothing. My mother wanted me to ask

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

6 o’clock. Just

said to Louise, “There’s an

accompany

his car drove away.

her

went to

the newly purchased villa.

the workers continued their overtime, hustling at the construction site. Grace paced back

stepped in, he could hear the buzzing sound of

turned around and saw Brian with

come you’re here?” Grace

hesitation, a mosquito landed on her cheek.

furrowed his brow and walked over,

against Grace’s face, momentarily causing her

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

while her fair

fair skin, those red marks

choice?”

mosquitoes flying around. He grabbed her wrist

다

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conditioning was on Inside the car,

wearily into the

out a bottle of

and applied the flora water to each red mark on her body. The

Itchiness.

water to

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

asked, “Aren’t we

eaten?‘ Brian asked, not directly answering

“Rumble-”

stomach, fittingly, made a sound that humorously mimicked a