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

Melanie was startled, she had not been

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

her

down at the wound on his forearm, his expression unchanging. He nodded and continued to move the

attention was trained on his bleeding wound. As he strained his muscles to lift the frame, more

Xander seemed completely unfazed. He simply put down the wooden frame and

for him to finish writing before she said softly, “Xander, you should go to the hospital and

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

medication at home? Melanie

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when I carry things around.

the time they were done, it was already late in the

the exhibition hall, and Melanie went back to the hotel on

hour now. It was past dinner time when she

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