The Unfaithful Mr. Scott novel (Eugene and Melanie)

Chapter 91

Melanie looked thoughtful, asking Xander, “Are all your designs like this?”

Xander paused, his pen stopping in mid–air. He glanced up at Melanie. “Business fairs are all about money, aren’t they?”

Melanie laughed. “You’re pretty practical.”

All of a sudden, she heard something. It sounded like some parts falling off.

Melanie blinked and looked up in a daze. The next second, she heard Xander barking, “Move!”

Melanie was so shocked that she was a second too late to react. The large wooden frame came crashing down toward her head!

At the very last moment, an arm wrapped around her waist. Xander pulled her away just before the frame struck her.

Melanie stared at the shattered wooden frame, deeply shaken. Xander pulled his arm back after putting her down.

He frowned at the forlorn pieces of the frame, saying to Melanie in a low voice, “I’m sorry, I forgot to tell you that the frame was only temporarily suspended up there. It could have fallen at any time.”

exhibition hall, so most of the decor was not

she had not been hurt,

Xander’s right forearm. He had probably been scraped by the corner of the wooden frame when

rummaged in her bag

his forearm, his expression unchanging. He nodded and

on his bleeding wound. As he strained his muscles to lift

down the wooden frame and

waited for him to finish writing before she said softly, “Xander, you should

They left the clinic after the nurses disinfected his wound and applied some medicine to it.

tetanus medication at home? Melanie asked,

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when I carry things around. It’s

they were done, it was

the exhibition hall, and Melanie went back to the

a little overcast today, and it was rush hour now. It was past dinner time when she finally got back

went back to her room. She did not notice it when she was outside, but once she returned to the hotel, she felt physically