Silly Bride novel (Winnie and Xavier)

Winnie was utterly oblivious to his considerations.

She glanced at him dejectedly and replied, “My hubby’s heart will not ache for me because he has some problem here.”

Winnie pointed at her own head as she spoke while wearing a poker face.

At that sight, Josiah chimed in sarcastically, “That’s right. There’s something wrong with his husband’s brain. His condition has been unstable and cannot be fully cured. I can’t even bring myself to describe how awful it is. At times, he even acted no different from an insane person!”

“Exactly.” Winnie curled her lips into a fake smile and raised her hand in Josiah’s direction.

Josiah fathomed her intention and gave her a high-five.

The corner of Xavier’s mouth twitched imperceptibly as he took in his wife and his best friend collaborating to mock him.

He stared at Josiah’s hand, which came into contact with Winnie’s palm, and thought to himself. I think it’s time for someone to lose a hand now.

“Let’s get down to business. I thought that’s why you two are here looking for me,” Xavier uttered impassively.

“That’s right. I was asking you a question, but you interrupted me. I answered your question about the origin of the hypnotic incense. It should be your turn to answer my question now, right?”

Xavier frowned. “Okay. I don’t remember. I’m not sure if someone hypnotized me.”

“All right then.” Josiah nodded. “This is within our expectation. However, we suspect this to be the reason. Besides, from our investigation, we found out Yolanda studied the art of hypnosis. Since you do not remember anything, we’ll skip interviewing you. Let me talk about my—”

“Hold on!” Winnie interjected Josiah’s speech.

She turned to look at Xavier. “At that time, you remained unconscious for a long time after the needles were removed. This situation had never occurred during the previous acupuncture sessions. What happened that day? Were you feeling extra sleepy or what? Or did you hear a special sound in the end that instantaneously awakened you?”

“She’s right! Did you wake up because you heard or sensed something? This is very important. How could I have forgotten about this?” Josiah urged Xavier to answer the question.

Initially, Xavier was reluctant to tell, as the uncertainties regarding his situation were piling up.

Besides, he had planned to maintain his current condition in order to fool Yolanda.

Having said that, after witnessing how much Winnie had done for him, he could not bring himself to cause her more trouble and waste her time on irrelevant matters.

Therefore, after giving it some thought, he decided to divulge some information.

“I have the slightest recollection in this regard. At that time, I tried my best to open my eyes, but I could not control my body as if I was experiencing sleep paralysis. This lasted until I heard a series of ticking sounds, prompting me to jolt awake.”

“Ticking sounds…” Winnie mumbled that phrase repeatedly while taking off her wristwatch with her head lowered. She placed the watch beside Xavier’s ear and asked, “Try to recall your memories. Is this the ticking sound you heard?”

“The sound is similar, but the ticking sound I heard previously was louder.”

“The sound is similar, but the ticking sound I heard previously was louder.”

She nodded. “That is most likely a pocket watch. A pocket watch is a usual and convenient hypnotic tool to carry around.” Winnie kept her wristwatch and added, “I think it is highly possible Yolande had hypnotized you. Nevertheless, I could not think of her motive in doing this.”

Josiah knitted his brows. “You’re right. Yolanda is very discreet and will never tell the truth, regardless of how we interrogated her. Now, I even have the feeling that she will not provide us with the answer we need even if we catch her red-handed and torment her.”

“In that case, we shouldn’t alarm her. We can just play along with her scheme,” Xavier suggested.

Winnie furrowed her brows. “That is plausible, but we need to think of a way to counter her hypnosis because we cannot predict what instructions she’ll be giving next time. Your brain should not and cannot be manipulated further.”

Xavier nodded. Nonetheless, he did not want his wife to overwork. “We’ll let Josiah handle this since he’s a modern medicine practitioner. He should be more familiar with hypnosis. As for you, a traditional medicine practitioner, I think there’s no need for you to take part in these issues.”

Winnie could not be bothered to argue with Xavier regarding that matter. However, she could never rest assured letting Josiah deal with everything.

Josiah agreed with Xavier’s statement. “Okay. I will consult a professional when I return. Perhaps I can reply to you two by tomorrow morning.”

“Okay.” Xavier got to his feet. “It’s getting late. Let me see you out.”

“No, it’s okay…” Josiah was dumbfounded. What the heck? He’s chasing me away without even trying to be polite or subtle.

Still, he did not call Xavier out for his uncourteous behavior. “I know the way around here, so I can leave on my own.”

up his car keys from the table and

two steps forward before realizing Winnie was still sitting on

around and glanced at her. “Aren’t

I have a

case, you two should carry on. I shall take my

needing Xavier to walk him to the door, Josiah directly strode toward

turning around and shifting his pensive and calm gaze onto

we have to talk about, Dr. Garland? Why can’t

eyes into him. “That’s not possible. This is a personal

curled his lips into a faint smile while staring

What personal matter

and gently patted the spot next to her. “Take a

sure? Aren’t you afraid your husband will get mad if he knows that I sit so close

request my patient to sit next to me so that I

Xavier was already facing a difficult time resisting her

go over. Even if she did not ask him to

press the back of her head with his other hand. He wanted to let Winnie know just

not succumb to that impulse. Instead, he carefully contained the eager beast within him and slowly stepped toward

deliberately left the space of an arm’s

surge of desire within him, and

overwhelmed by his desire, and that was an

want to say to

her phone and launched the camera application. Then,

only did she spare him a glance and uttered nonchalantly, “I’m afraid you’ll forget me, so I am creating a

chuckled. He seized the opportunity to greedily appreciate the sight of her while

a dumbo. She doesn’t have to waste her effort to create proof because I will never forget her, even if I fail to remember everyone else. Even if the virus takes control of my brain

editing the picture, so she was oblivious to

merely added some descriptions to the image. Due to the simplicity of the task, she was done with it in no

the picture to you. Remember to save

phone rang right after Winnie uttered those words. Evidently, he had received her

message and saw the picture was taken from an excellent angle. As a result, the duo appeared exceptionally at ease

thought the captions she added

the patient” beside his

urge to laugh after seeing

well. I’ve kept you

“Thank you.”

was about to go after she expressed her gratitude, but he was reluctant

instant after parting his lips

the situation. All I have to do is pretend to be amnesic. If she could pretend to be a fool, why couldn’t I put on

raised his brow at her. “Why do you have my contact information, and why

up at him. “What do you think? In your opinion,

laughed. “Hmph! I must have wrongly saved your contact because you have the same name as my

to have done something like that? Why don’t you

Xavier acted as if he was going to change the contact name as he spoke, but he could not bring himself

do I spell your name? Why don’t

phone and amended the

the contact name, she did not return

for a few moments and directly set the picture earlier as the wallpaper

her. “What are you doing? Are you

this enticing? I’ll show you what a

the couch,

in pleasure most of the time. Perhaps a more

she told him she would show him the true

already tantalized by her, but being caught in that

in his mind, and the intense lust that overwhelmed his sanity prompted him

lifted Winnie’s legs and pinned her against the

swore it was not his

yelped as her back collided with the

she must be experiencing significant pain due to the injury. Otherwise, she would not have reacted in

eyes started