Silly Bride novel (Winnie and Xavier)

However, he quickly recollected himself and started backing away, still using his body to shield Winnie. “Don’t worry about me. Just jump into the water!”

Winnie glanced at the bleeding wound on his abdomen and frowned.

“It’s useless to jump off now. We’ve already sailed into the high seas, and it’d be impossible to swim back to shore. Our only option now is to take these brutes down and seize control of the boat! Besides, you need to stop your bleeding. If you jump down now, you’ll die.”

Even if neither of us was hurt, jumping into the cold waters now will eventually kill us both!

“We won’t be able to overpower them,” Xavier muttered as his eyes fell on the deck below. “There are more coming.”

Sure enough, Winnie followed his gaze and saw another group of men heading toward them. “D*mn it! We’ve been too careless!”

“Listen to me and jump!” Xavier insisted as he turned to look at her. “Otherwise, it’d be too late once they’ve surrounded us!”

At that moment, Winnie did trust the man in front of her.

She believed that no matter the circumstances, he’d always find a way to get them out safe and sound.

For example, when they previously went to rescue Yulissa, Xavier whipped out two fake bombs he had prepared and scared the living daylights out of the kidnappers.

Alas, with the latter getting stabbed this time round, things weren’t looking as rosy as before.

Before she jumped, Winnie shot a last glance at Xavier. “My family heirloom is still with you, and I intend to get it back. You’re not going to die here, are you?”

“Of course not!” Xavier replied as he suddenly put something around Winnie’s wrist and gave her a shove.

In that split second, Winnie seemed to see Hugo stab Xavier again, and she could almost taste the blood in the air.

The next thing she knew, she had hit the water with a loud splash.

utterly disoriented and could only

didn’t take long before she regained

out of the water, she realized the yacht

see anything clearly due to the poor visibility at sea, she still heard three consecutive sounds of heavy objects plunging into

be Xavier and his men getting thrown off

ado, Winnie dived back into the sea and swam

the pale moonlight, she saw a dark figure in front of her sinking rapidly, much

I did! I’m sure those brutes must have tied weights to him. How cruel of

it was almost a full minute later when she

Xavier had metal weights around him, and Winnie had to drag him to the surface while untying

a monumental task. The latter hadn’t even managed to untie the ropes when the two of them

her boots which she

the weights were off, they finally stopped sinking, but

to have keeled over due to excessive blood loss, and since he couldn’t hold his breath in the water, it wouldn’t be long before he

him die now! Otherwise, all my efforts to save him would go to

Xavier’s face and

so, she continued to kick her legs in an

could only mean he had

felt him grabbing her wrist and pressing down on a

her arm went momentarily numb as an airbag popped out from the

put on my wrist before I jumped! It’s an emergency airbag! What about

around, and when she saw another airbag

turned out the way I had

Winnie and Xavier safely surfaced

water, and Winnie guessed they must be Xavier’s bodyguard and driver. All in all, she

The yacht was also long gone, and without any sources of light nearby, neither Winnie nor

your wound okay?” Winnie asked