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

no sight of Grace, he couldn’t resist

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 moment.

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

be finished on time, so I asked the workers to do an extra two hours of overtime.

to ask her about

but internally harbored doubts

already past 6 o’clock. Just then, his phone

to the living room and said to Louise, “There’s an

say something, perhaps intending to offer to accompany

enough, his car

her fists

to

to the newly purchased

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

as he stepped in, he could hear the

footsteps, Grace turned around and

here?” Grace paused

that brief moment of hesitation, a mosquito landed

his brow and walked over, gently pressing on her cheek.

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

Brian couldn’t help but scold, “Are

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

those red marks looked particularly distressing

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

the annoying mosquitoes flying around. He grabbed her

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

slumped wearily into

bottle of flora water, and handed it to

it and applied the flora water to each red mark on

Itchiness.

returned the flora water to him, saying, “Thank

hands on the

asked, “Aren’t we

Brian asked, not

“Rumble-”

humorously mimicked a