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.”

stages of setting up the exhibition hall, so most of the decor was not permanently fixed

Melanie was startled, she had not been hurt, so she said,

probably been scraped by the corner of the wooden frame when he saved

in her bag for an

at the wound on his forearm, his expression unchanging. He nodded and

he strained his muscles to lift the frame, more blood seeped

unfazed. He simply put down the wooden frame and

she said softly, “Xander, you should go to the hospital and

not deep. They left the clinic after the nurses disinfected his wound and applied some medicine to it. Melanie had warned Xander about the risk of

tetanus medication at

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replied, “I bump into stuff when I carry

the time they were done, it was already late

Melanie went back

overcast today, and it was rush hour now. It was

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