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 asking.

to supervise. Is something the matter? Do you need to

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heart skipped a beat for a moment.

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

on time, so I asked the workers to do an extra two hours of overtime. Brian, do you have something urgent to

mother wanted me to ask

a slow “Oh but internally harbored doubts about what he had just said.

6 o’clock. Just then, his

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

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

his car drove

clenched her fists

went to the company, she thought.

drove to the

overtime, hustling at the construction site. Grace paced back and forth inside, occasionally

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

turned around and saw Brian with

Grace paused in

that brief moment of hesitation, a

walked over, gently pressing

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

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

her forehead, while her fair and smooth legs were covered in

marks looked particularly distressing and stood out

any other choice?” Grace asked him back while scratching the

man shot her a fierce glare, swatting away the annoying mosquitoes flying around. He grabbed her wrist in frustration and pulled her out, leading

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Chapter 30

conditioning was on Inside the car, and a refreshing

wearily into the seat.

out a bottle of flora water, and handed it to

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

Itchiness.

she returned the flora water to him, saying, “Thank you.”

placed it back, resting his hands on the

asked, “Aren’t we

asked, not directly answering

“Rumble-”

mimicked

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