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.

looked at Winnie with an aggrieved expression and asked,

“Not really,” Winnie responded.

cried, “Exactly! Ugh,

grumble, Winnie continued, “You just look a little creepy. You know, the creeps in movies are just like you—they look like

least you complimented my appearance. Hurry up

he got into the driver’s

drive a little faster, we might just be able to

then,”

ten

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

nodded. “I vaguely remember that

go past them now. You’ll get to witness

hundred and twenty kilometers per hour. The car shot forward like

the red car, Winnie

“Who do you think

to chase them, not to block the road!” she

bet that if she knows we’re chasing her,

and they both unbuckled their seatbelts at the same time

moment, the red car was already

the window, they could both see

doubt about it,” Josiah affirmed

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 isn’t in

pushed his glasses up. “You’re right. There’s nobody there. We were deceived by the

about that, but she should be a tough nut to crack!”

say that?”

seeing this? She’s accelerating. She probably plans on smashing right into

came out of her mouth, it

not help but curse. “Does she have no sense

own life, but it also seemed that she did not care for the housekeeper,

not a ditch on Josiah’s side of the road, so he had no choice but to jump into

Winnie and Josiah’s car. At the last second, she screeched the car to a

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

out of the field and went over to knock on the car window on Yolanda’s

before Winnie grabbed his arm and

the window as well, but unlike Josiah, she did so very politely,

found her attitude to be decent, for

aloof than Winnie had expected. Yolanda did not ask any questions, nor did she censure them for stopping their car in

and

Xander, but I have something very important to talk to him about. That’s why we abruptly chased after you. However, it’s apparent that your neighbor has gotten

so many utterances did Yolanda finally spare

an ice-cold look on her face, Yolanda looked extremely serious. “Just looking at you guys gets on my nerves. You’d better not disturb my grandpa. I already told

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

other hand, could not take it. “Ms. Xander, I’ve asked around and learned that Old

Either way, I don’t want to see you guys. Move the car away

you somehow? We just want to get treatment. Why are you

to move the car?”

an

If you’re not going to move the car,

completely different wavelengths. Neither

door of the front passenger seat and had the

the housekeeper out in the middle of the

While the housekeeper was getting out of the car, he took advantage of the situation to get into the front passenger seat

Yolanda from leaving and wanted to gain control of the steering

fight back for a while. When she realized that she was no match for him, she suddenly took something out

who was standing outside, could not get a clear look at what Yolanda had grabbed. All she saw was a flash of