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.”

of setting up the exhibition hall,

Melanie was startled, she had not been hurt,

a scratch on Xander’s right forearm. He had probably been scraped by the corner of the wooden frame when he saved her

brow furrowed as she rummaged in her bag for an alcohol

forearm, his expression unchanging. He nodded

bleeding wound. As he strained his muscles to lift the

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

softly, “Xander, you should go to

a clinic nearby, and the cut on Xander’s forearm was long but not deep. They left the clinic after the nurses disinfected his wound and applied some medicine to it. Melanie had warned Xander about the

at home?

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stuff when I

they were done, it was

hall, and Melanie went back to the hotel on her

it was rush hour now. It was past dinner

not notice it when she was outside, but once