Silly Bride novel (Winnie and Xavier)

As she had been exceptionally obedient, Winnie turned on the television for her.

Rachel enjoyed every moment of the children’s cartoon.

In fact, she was so immersed in the cartoon she did not even notice when Michael and Sebastian came out of the study.

However, Winnie noticed them, and she also saw how anxious Michael was as if he had encountered some kind of trouble.

Instantly, Winnie walked over and asked, “Did something happen, Mr. Zimmerman?”

“It’s nothing important.” Michael sheepishly rubbed his hands. “It’s just that my aunt is here, and she’s already at the train station, waiting for me to pick her up. After picking her up, I have to send her to my cousin’s place. You know, I’m staying at my cousin’s place right now, so I have to help him out with some stuff. But it’ll take quite a while, and I honestly don’t feel comfortable taking Rach to the train station. It’s crowded there, and I’m scared of losing her there. The last time she was kidnapped, it was at the train station. So, I was wondering if you can help me watch over Rach for a while. Once I send my aunt to my cousin’s place, I’ll come and pick Rach up right away. Is that all right with you?”

Sebastian was worried that Winnie might be too reserved to give Michael an answer because she was currently in the Xander residence, so he took the initiative to say, “That’s fine! You can go ahead and do what you need to do. Leave your kid with me. There’s no need to worry.”

Winnie nodded as well. “I’ll keep an eye on Rach and won’t let her wander around.”

“Oh my, thank you so much!” Michael nodded fervently. He then added, “The kid just needs television to watch. Look at her. She’s not even blinking, and she’s ignoring me.”

Winnie smiled. “That’s how kids are.”

After Michael left, Rachel continued watching cartoons for another half an hour.

However, Michael had told Winnie before he left that Rachel needed to go for her afternoon nap, and it was almost about time.

After a long while of convincing and a bout of Rachel’s tantrum, Rachel finally heeded her words and went to the guest room for her afternoon nap.

To be honest, Winnie had a habit of napping in the afternoon too, but Sebastian did not. Thus, the woman decided to stay up and study with Sebastian.

Yolanda had her own plans, so she stayed in the study with them as well.

The three of them were busying away with their own matters when sounds came from the outside. It sounded like someone was opening and closing the door.

As it was quiet in the study, the sound seemed exceptionally loud.

Sebastian halted in his explanation and asked, “Did someone come in?”

“That’s impossible,” Yolanda firmly said. “I locked the door.”

All of a sudden, the doorbell rang.

Winnie glanced at her watch to check the time and realized what was going on. “It must be Xavier.”

Sebastian nodded. “He’s rather punctual. Open the door for him, then.”

When Winnie opened the door, she was greeted by the sight of Xavier and Josiah standing in a line.

To fill the silence, Josiah said, “The neighbor opened his door when I came up here, so I thought you guys were there. I was ready to enter, but I ended up scaring the guy. He slammed the door in my face and nearly broke my glasses.”

“Oh, so it was the neighbor.” Winnie invited them both into the house. “We heard the sound of a door opening and closing earlier, and we thought it was a thief.”

“How can that be?” Josiah questioned, amused. “How can a thief break into this place in broad daylight?”

After the three of them entered the house, Sebastian came out of the study with Yolanda.

Xavier and Josiah then greeted Sebastian politely. After exchanging a few words with the two of them, Sebastian then said that he wanted to bring Xavier to the doctor’s office he had temporarily set up in the residence.

Josiah checked his watch for the time before asking Sebastian with a smile, “Old Mr. Xander, I don’t think you need me around anymore, right? I have some things to attend to, so I won’t disturb you anymore.”

“Go ahead to settle your matters, Dr. Houghton. I’ll be fine with Nini and Yolanda here.”

“You’re too courteous, Old Mr. Xander. You can just call me Jo.” With that said, Josiah patted Xavier’s shoulder. “Call me once you’re done. I’ll give you both a ride on my way back.”

Xavier beamed. “Brownie points for you.”

Josiah rolled his eyes at Xavier. “Are you looking down on me? Why would I need brownie points from you?”

The sight of Xavier messing around with Josiah made Sebastian laugh.

“Mr. Fairchild, you seem to be in quite a good state. We’ll have to continue with your acupuncture sessions. I’m sure you’ll fully recover in no time.”

they

the room, Winnie caught a whiff of a strange

is this? Why is

calming incense that I’ve made. It’s meant to calm the

want to

in your bedroom, I’ll make another kind for you. This kind isn’t suitable for long

“Thank you, Master.”

the bed while Sebastian went to

Xavier lay down, Sebastian had

Sebastian when the

had sensed nothing wrong, she let out an inward sigh of

was about to insert the first needle, Xavier abruptly

“Wait!”

stopped in his tracks, and Winnie gave Xavier a confused look as

on the other hand, snapped her brows

way this outsider in the field of acupuncture actually noticed something wrong when

as he asked

his brows. “There’s something under

began

stopped him. “Don’t move. I’ll

tilted Xavier’s head to the side and found a

It was tiny.

could not help but diss him, “Are you the princess in The Princess and The Pea? How are you

than later. It’ll be bad if it affects

made no sound the entire time, she let out a sigh of relief

watch me first. The last three insertions won’t be

Sebastian, Winnie lowered her head to look at Xavier.

did not say anything that sounded like it

gentle look crept into his eyes as he gazed

if I insert the needles in the wrong spots and fry

Xavier’s tone was as determined as the look in his

wanted to say, but there were too many people around her, and

placed his life in her hands—when he had shielded her

all talk;

cherished his

let herself

in mind, a smile

take a nap. Everything will be fine once

the last

breath and trained her focus on what she was about to do. Recalling the doll

she showed

help but praise, “Very good. You’re performing much better than Yolanda and her brother. Back then, their

praising her, then, Grandpa. I’m

admit

Yolanda then stormed out

wouldn’t have forced herself to learn and research traditional medicine with me. She has had some achievements while studying herbs with me. Although she says she doesn’t like this, she’s been working hard all

to challenge her either. I hope we’ll be able to communicate with each other peacefully

that Winnie was quite the aggressive character in life, so he was glad to hear that she was

teach her. “Let’s go back to

study, Yolanda was typing out her

Sebastian entered the

them chatted for a long time before Yolanda was done editing a section of her thesis. Then,

he nagged, “I told you to eat more in the noon, but you didn’t

and I couldn’t eat more of it. You guys

that said, Yolanda left

Yolanda

it was true that Yolanda had gone out to make mac and cheese, she

incense was still burning in the incense burner. The incense was meant to calm the nerves, and coupled with the fact that she had secretly added some hypnotic incense as well,

Yolanda took out a

needle with anesthesia, Xavier did

were half-lidded, and

was the perfect state

world could forget about the woman named

try

she wanted it to. After all, she had also coated the needles in the acupuncture kit with the drug that Nate had given to her. Now that those drugs were in Xavier’s mind, no one could say for sure what would happen to