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.

a hurry to get back to chopping wood, she ditched

basket were gone. Daisy gave Grace a beating, even

the kid, but

She'd been gutsy then. If his pursuers had found out, she'd be toast. She wondered how he

When Grace was a

and threatened to slaughter

even built it a

an elderly man who lived alone and in return, he gave her

times. Her joys and

thought, she overheard two men chatting behind

in Grace's mind. She

It was Brian.

sensed something and locked eyes

eyes

widened.

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