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

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

villa’s renovation started today, and I asked her to supervise. Is something the matter? Do you need to find her for

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heart skipped a beat for a

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

so I asked the workers to do

to ask her about something.”

but internally harbored doubts about

6 o’clock. Just then, his phone rang, and he

and said to Louise, “There’s an urgent

offer to accompany

his car drove

clenched her fists silently.

to the company,

to the newly

nearly dark, yet the workers continued their overtime, hustling at the construction site. Grace paced back and forth inside, occasionally gesturing

he could hear the

and saw

you’re here?” Grace paused in surprise.

that brief moment of hesitation, a mosquito

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

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

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

formed on her forehead, while her fair

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

choice?” Grace asked him back while scratching the

annoying mosquitoes flying around.

JMM

Chapter 30

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

slumped wearily into the

a bottle of flora water, and

and applied the flora water to each red mark on

Itchiness.

she returned the flora water to him,

hands on the steering wheel, but didn’t start the

asked, “Aren’t we leaving?”

Brian asked, not directly answering her

“Rumble-”

mimicked

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