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

asked her to supervise. Is something the matter? Do you need to find her

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heart skipped a beat for a

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

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 about?”

mother wanted me to ask

internally harbored doubts

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

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

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

his car drove

her fists

truly went to the

the

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

soon as he stepped in, he could hear the buzzing sound of

Grace turned around and saw Brian with a stern

here?” Grace paused in surprise.

a mosquito landed

furrowed his brow and walked over, gently pressing on

gently against Grace’s face, momentarily causing

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

while her fair and smooth legs were covered in

skin, those red marks looked particularly distressing and stood out

other choice?” Grace asked him back while

glare, swatting away the annoying mosquitoes flying around. He

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Chapter 30

into the passenger seat by him. The air conditioning was on Inside the

wearily into

pulled out a bottle of flora water, and handed

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

Itchiness.

she returned the flora water to him,

the steering wheel,

asked, “Aren’t we leaving?”

eaten?‘ Brian asked, not

“Rumble-”

sound that humorously mimicked a deceptive tactic, prompting her

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