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

before realizing Winnie was still

head around and glanced at her. “Aren’t

first. I have a few things I need to speak

should carry on. I shall take

walk him to the door, Josiah directly

door before turning around and shifting

have to talk about, Dr. Garland? Why can’t we discuss it with Josiah

her eyes into him. “That’s not possible. This is a personal matter between us, so Josiah’s presence

lips into a

matter could

the spot next to her. “Take a seat here,

your husband will get mad if he knows that

is there any issue if I request my patient to sit next to me so that I can interview

already facing

to go over. Even if she did not ask him to sit beside her, he had the urge to

his arm around her waist and press the back of her head with his other hand. He wanted to let Winnie know just how much

succumb to that impulse. Instead, he carefully

left the space of an arm’s length between them when sitting on the

fragrance, he felt a surge of desire within him, and that strong feeling was

would spiral out of control if he were overwhelmed by his desire,

to say

Winnie took out her phone and launched the camera application. Then, she took a

spare him a glance and uttered nonchalantly, “I’m afraid you’ll forget me, so I

sight of her while she lowered her head and focused on

control of my brain one day and causes me to forget everything, I believe I will still fall

picture, so she was

the simplicity of the task, she was

picture to you. Remember to

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

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

thought the captions she added

patient” beside his face and “Winnie Garland, the

urge to laugh after seeing

you in my mind,

“Thank you.”

was about to go after she expressed her gratitude, but he was reluctant for her to take her leave so

wanted to say something but hesitated at that instant after parting his lips as

when he was reminded of how Winnie used to act like a fool in front of him, he made peace with the situation. All I have to do is pretend to be amnesic.

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

think? In your

“Hmph! I must have wrongly saved your contact because you have the same

so? In that case, aren’t you smart to have done something like that? Why

was going to change the contact name

do I spell your

suggestion. She received his phone and amended the contact name from

contact name, she did not return the device to him

for a few moments and directly set the picture

his brow at her. “What are you doing?

this enticing? I’ll show you what

suddenly knelt on the couch, pinned Xavier

in pleasure most of the time. Perhaps a more accurate saying would be that she had been

she would show him the true art of

tantalized by her, but being caught in that state was actually quite dangerous for

mind, and the intense lust that overwhelmed his sanity prompted him to turn into

even lifted Winnie’s legs and pinned her against the coffee table in front of them

it was not his intention to exert so much force, but

her back collided with the

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

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