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.”

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

startled, she had not been

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

rummaged in her bag for an alcohol wipe. “Xander, you’re

his forearm, his expression unchanging. He nodded and continued

on his bleeding wound. As he strained his muscles

simply put down the

softly, “Xander, you should go to the

wound and applied some medicine to it. Melanie had warned Xander about the

casually keep some tetanus medication at

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stuff when I carry things around. It’s

were done, it was

Melanie went back to the

it was rush hour now. It was past dinner time

it when she was outside, but once she returned to the hotel, she