Silly Bride novel (Winnie and Xavier)

“Yeah. It’s all too strange…” Josiah mumbled. He subconsciously glanced at the gifts in the trunk, which were still untouched.

At that sight, he could not help but tease Winnie. “Look, the gifts you prepared are still here. They wouldn’t even accept them, yet you want me to learn from you. Your method didn’t work as well.”

“Why would you say that it didn’t work?” Winnie eyed him. “At the very least, the Xander family’s housekeeper didn’t suspect me of anything. She even told me the truth.”

“Fine. You’re the smarter one, after all. If you had said you were looking for Yolanda from the start, then everything would have fallen apart,” he admitted.

“Is that so?” Winnie was looking at the navigation, so her reply was a perfunctory one.

“Of course! The housekeeper wouldn’t let you in straight away. No matter what, she would have to inform Yolanda first. Hasn’t she planted a spy in the police station? I bet that policeman has long tipped her off. I’m almost certain that she knows we came here together. It would be strange if she were to agree to meet you. In my opinion, the housekeeper who answered the door today is a variable,” Josiah elaborated.

“Is that so?” After listening to his analysis of the situation, she immediately furrowed her eyebrows.

Then, she instantly started drifting on the rather narrow cement road and turned the car around without hesitation.

It was all too sudden, and Josiah felt that he was nearly sent flying out of the car.

“Oh my goodness! What are you doing? I didn’t know we were in the Fast and Furious series!” he screamed.

“We’re going back to the Xander residence. Things are going so well, so much so that I overlooked something,” Winnie stated. “Yolanda was at home the whole time. Since she knows we’re a group, there’s no way she would let us bring Xavier over so easily. All you did was pace around in front of her house for a while before she called the police on you. There’s no way she wouldn’t do anything after seeing me talk to the housekeeper at the door for so long.”

“F*ck!” Josiah knew exactly what she was talking about. “Go faster, then! She might already be secretly sending Old Mr. Xander away.”

That was a possibility as well. Winnie hit the gas and sent the engine racing.

The metal gate of the mansion rattled as Josiah rapped on it.

That time around, however, the housekeeper did not come to answer the door.

He even called out Yolanda’s name a few times, but she never showed up.

Even so, he did not give up and continued knocking on the door for around ten minutes.

After that, the Xander family’s neighbors could not take it any longer. A man walked out from his courtyard and said, “Stop knocking. The family has just left. There’s nobody at home right now.”

“What? They’ve all left?” Josiah immediately approached and asked, “Wasn’t Old Mr. Xander in the herb fields? Did he leave just like that?”

“There’s nothing odd about that. The fields are close by. He can leave whenever he wants, can’t he?” the neighbor pointed out.

“Then do you know where they went?” Josiah probed.

The neighbor eyed the both of them cautiously and inquired, “Who are you two, anyway? Why are you asking so much?”

Josiah pulled out a random excuse. “We’re Yolanda’s friends.”

“Tsk. Drop the act.” The neighbor was not easily fooled. “If you were her friends, why are you asking me about this then? You could’ve just given her a call.”

“Her phone is switched off!” Josiah protested.

“I can’t help you, then. All I know is that she drove away earlier. I don’t know exactly where she’s gone to,” the neighbor said.

No sooner had he spoken than his wife came running out of the courtyard.

She recognized Josiah in an instant. “Hey! Isn’t that the guy who made a scene in front of the Xander residence yesterday and caused Ms. Xander to call the police on him? Why is he back again? Hurry! Close the door!”

“Huh?” The man immediately moved to protect his wife. “He told me that he was Ms. Xander’s friend. So, it turns out that he’s bad news. No wonder the whole family has left. They must be hiding from people like him.”

“No! That’s all a misunderstanding.” Josiah wanted to explain, but all that he got in response was the loud sound of the mansion’s metal gate clanging shut.

defeated. With arms akimbo, he looked at Winnie with an aggrieved

“Not really,” Winnie responded.

cried, “Exactly!

he could finish his grumble, Winnie continued, “You just look a little creepy. You know, the creeps in movies are just like you—they look like a gentleman on the outside and wear

complimented my appearance. Hurry up and get back

he spoke, he got into the driver’s

in. “There’s only one road here. If we drive a little faster, we might just be able to catch up with

then,” he

ten minutes,

car parked in their courtyard was red. I’m guessing the owner of the

nodded. “I vaguely remember that as

I’m going to go past them now. You’ll

floored the gas pedal, increasing the speed to one hundred and twenty kilometers per hour. The car shot

he stopped the car horizontally thirty meters before the red car, Winnie drawled, “There

“Who do you think I’m doing all this

told you to chase them, not

that if she knows we’re chasing her, she’ll never stop

of his. Their eyes met, and they both unbuckled

red car

they could both see

doubt about it,”

the front passenger seat is the housekeeper that I talked to earlier. Do you see that, though, Josiah? There’s nobody in the backseat. It looks like Old Mr. Xander

nobody there. We were deceived by the guy from before. Could it be that Yolanda planned

sure about that, but she should be

do you say that?” he

She’s accelerating. She probably plans

mouth, it was

but curse. “Does she have no

life, but it also seemed that

the road. There was not a ditch on Josiah’s side of the road, so he

had not actually crashed into Winnie and Josiah’s car.

Josiah’s calf was stuck in the mud. He was seething with rage and could not help but thunder, “You’re lucky that you aren’t driving a Tesla. Otherwise, you would have suffered if the

that, he still did not feel satisfied. Hence, he got out of the field and went over

before Winnie grabbed his

window as well, but unlike Josiah, she did so very politely, even bending down to show

Yolanda found her attitude to be decent, for she

Winnie had expected. Yolanda did not ask any questions, nor did she censure them for stopping their car in front of her. All

pros and cons, Winnie decided to

important to talk to him about. That’s why we abruptly chased after you. However, it’s apparent that your neighbor

so many utterances did Yolanda

gets on my nerves. You’d better not disturb my grandpa. I already told the man behind you that my grandpa doesn’t

for a favor, so even when she was told to get lost, she

asked around and learned that Old Mr. Xander’s in great health. He’s nothing like what you’ve described. You’re

does it matter to you whether I’m lying or not? Either way, I don’t want to

understand. “Did we offend you somehow? We just want to get treatment. Why are you

going to

just want an answer,” he

you’re not going to move the car, then so be it,” she

were both on completely different wavelengths. Neither of

the front passenger seat and had the housekeeper get out of the

in the middle of the road and turn the car

into play. While the housekeeper was getting out of the

and wanted to gain control of

When she realized that she was no match

get a clear look at what Yolanda had