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

of Grace, he couldn’t resist asking.

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

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skipped a beat for

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

asked the workers to do an extra two

me to ask

harbored doubts about what he had

on his watch, it was already past 6 o’clock. Just then, his phone rang,

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

perhaps intending to offer to accompany him, but before she could, he had already

his car drove away.

her

truly went to the company, she thought.

drove to the newly

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

frowned. As soon as he stepped in, he could hear

and saw Brian

here?” Grace

a mosquito landed

over, gently pressing

against Grace’s face, momentarily causing her to freeze in

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

already formed on her forehead, while her fair and smooth legs were covered in tiny red

her exceptionally fair skin, those red marks looked particularly distressing and

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

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

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by him. The air conditioning was on

wearily into the seat.

pulled out a bottle of

to each red mark on her

Itchiness.

returned the flora water to him,

on the steering wheel, but didn’t start the

“Aren’t we leaving?”

Brian asked, not

“Rumble-”

sound that humorously mimicked a deceptive tactic, prompting

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