Falling for My Contractual Wife

Chapter 331

The driver grinned and chimed in. "Yep! Clearview Village is booining now. Mountains decked with cocoa trees. Villagers won't have to toil as hard in the future. Oh, and speaking of Clearview Village, they're sprucing up Myrtle Peak to turn it into a tourist spot. Folks in that neck of the woods are making the big bucks."

Soon, Grace spotted Myrtle Peak which was being constructed of

The Shermans' old home wasn't far, so Grace got off here.

The whole mountain was fenced off. Grace could kinda make out its original look through the construction. A cement road snaked halfway up. Grace trailed it up. This spot held a ton of memories.

Back in the day, she'd hike this mountain to gather wood. She remembered rescuing a kid here once.

She found him sprawled, bloodied. She dropped her load, hoisted him, and hauled him out. She carried him nearly two miles to the hospital.

She had no idea what was wrong with him. He clung to her necklace so tightly that she couldn't snag it from him before she left.

Luckily it wasn't anything fancy, just some plastic.

to get back to chopping wood, she

basket were gone.

kid, but he was

his pursuers had found

When Grace was a kid, she'd found a pup on

called them a waste and threatened to slaughter it if

raised it up there and even

man who lived alone and in return, he gave her some scraps.

misty-eyed. Those were simpler times. Her joys and worries

in thought, she overheard two men

clicked in Grace's mind.

It was Brian.

have sensed something and locked eyes

eyes

widened.

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