Silly Bride novel (Winnie and Xavier)

“Silly you!” Winnie said as she patted him on his shoulder. “Everyone will be happy once you recover. That way, you’ll finally be able to sleep well and—”

“I’m not sleepy,” Xavier suddenly interrupted.

“Fine,” Winnie mumbled, sighing inwardly. Gosh. I realize I’ve been sighing a lot more ever since knowing him.

After a while, she added, “You might not be sleepy, but I sure hope you haven’t forgotten what we’ve been through.”

Upon hearing that, Xavier furrowed his brows. “Very well, then. Let me investigate the guy called Harrison Xander. I’ll make the arrangements once I’m back at the hotel.”

“Sounds good,” Winnie replied with a nod. “With your help, I’ll be able to make a lot more progress.”

“What?” Xavier uttered as he cupped her face. “Are you still planning to continue the search on your own? There’s no way I’d allow that. I won’t let you spend your time and effort on other men except me!”

Needless to say, Winnie was more than amused.

To think he was so serious earlier, only to return to his domineering self at a flip of the switch. That said, I must admit this quirk of his is starting to grow on me. I’m finding it rather adorable.

Josiah, however, laughed so hard that he spat his water out.

As efficient as always, Xavier launched an investigation into Harrison Xander and received news the next day.

Winnie wasted no time looking through the information sent over by the private investigator and felt it was all highly credible.

Thus, she decided to share everything she knew with Sebastian when she sent Xavier to his treatment that day.

This time around, not only was Winnie present at the acupuncture session, but Yolanda had also tagged along to learn from her grandfather.

Since the former was still unfamiliar with acupuncture and couldn’t possibly take over the reins of the treatment, it was no surprise that Yolanda remained Sebastian’s first pick.

Even though Winnie had doubts about Yolanda’s motives, she, unfortunately, couldn’t find any evidence to back her assumptions up.

She had gotten people to keep tabs on Yolanda, only to find out that the latter had hardly left the house in the past few days, and even her call history didn’t seem unusual.

Yolanda was either truly innocent or had another phone that was very well-hidden.

Alas, what else could Winnie do when she hadn’t found any concrete proof? She couldn’t approach Sebastian to voice her suspicions about Yolanda wanting to harm Xavier, could she?

wasn’t long before the acupuncture needles were all applied,

to get Winnie familiarized with the various acupoints on the human body, but to his surprise,

need to tell you. It’s about your grandson,

his initial shock, Sebastian soon became

found any

hopeful Sebastian was, Winnie suddenly couldn’t bring herself to

Master. Didn’t I tell you before that I found out he has a property in Avenport? I had to stop the investigation back then for personal reasons, and it was only yesterday that I asked Xavier to help me with it. Thanks to him, I was informed earlier that we finally tracked down Harrison’s residence in Avenport. That’s why I

didn’t even know he had a

truth was, he knew he had reacted too emotionally. After all, what were the chances of his grandson surviving when

be a consolation to Sebastian if he could find out anything about

out the collated information and handed it over. “Here’s the property in question. The house got purchased five years ago, but Harrison didn’t use it often. In total, he probably stayed there

institute, so he barely had time to head out,” Sebastian explained before looking through a stack of photos. “What about these?

show the items we found in Harrison’s mailbox, which include utility bills and postcards. However,

a clearer picture

there are two more. Give me a second,” Winnie

photos up

my glasses?

you’ve been wearing your

hearing that, Sebastian quickly felt his face, and only then

carefully studied the content on the postcards, and even though there weren’t any

about this. The sign-off date on one of the postcards

I’m sure that’s his handwriting. Furthermore, the postage stamp is from Epea! Do you think he could still be alive? He clearly wrote this to his future self, saying he wanted to drink his own homemade beer and watch his favorite movies two years later. Two years from the date on this postcard is this year! That means he must still be alive! He’ll be back, won’t

the postcard from her grandfather and glanced at it.

different. I think the sign-off date was merely an error, and he mailed the postcard before he went missing. He probably visited Epea before going to Alendor and felt happy enough to send himself

brother, Yolanda! Why

that what you think?” Yolanda scoffed. “In your eyes, your new student’s the only one who cares about Harrison, isn’t it? Fine! The two of you can continue playing detective to your

always feel heavy-hearted, to the point where she’d find it hard to breathe. As such, she couldn’t bring herself to stay with Sebastian

eyes as he watched

I overthinking? Do you

I do know, however, is that the truth is out there. I’ll get someone to look into this matter and check out the place where Harrison allegedly sent the

two-year period mentioned in the postcard, and that day is coming soon. I’m thinking of going to Avenport

make the necessary arrangements. Xavier and I live in Avenport, so

packing up now,” Sebastian said before striding

left for a few minutes when Yolanda marched back into the room