Silly Bride novel (Winnie and Xavier)

“It’s unlike him to not answer his phone. Even if he gets a call while he’s fast asleep at two or three in the morning, he answers it within five rings. I think we should head back and have a look.”

Xavier was about to get up from the bed when Winnie pushed him back down.

“There are only a few minutes left; it won’t make a difference. If you go now, these dozens of needles I’ve inserted will have been for nothing.” The worried look on Winnie’s face was replaced by a stern expression.

Xavier felt a warm sensation in his heart when he heard that. Winnie could see her reflection in his eyes as he held her hand and looked straight at her.

“Dumbo, am I as important as your granny to you now?” Xavier asked.

Winnie stifled a sob as she looked at Xavier, who had suffered many times for her sake.

The look in her eyes slowly grew gentle as she swallowed hard to fight back her tears. “What do you think? Do you not know how much you mean to me?”

Xavier tightened his grip on her hand. “I just had to make sure I wasn’t being delusional.”

Winnie let out a chuckle. “Haha! Who’s the dumbo now? Xavier, I want you to trust me unconditionally, okay?”

“Okay, I will. Do you trust me as well?” Xavier asked with a firm look in his eyes.

Winnie nodded. “Of course.”

Those words had barely left her mouth when Josiah’s call came in.

She quickly pulled her hand out of Xavier’s grip and answered the phone.

“Josiah? Are you at Aqua Moana? Why weren’t you picking up my calls?”

Noticing the anxiety in her voice, Josiah quickly explained, “It wasn’t convenient for me to answer the phone earlier, but it’s okay now. I called you back as soon as I could. Did something happen?”

“You could say that. I tried calling my granny, but I couldn’t get through. I was wondering if you could head over to my place and help check on her,” Winnie replied.

Josiah’s response, however, shocked her deeply.

able to get through to her. I was going to give you a call even if you didn’t

confusion. “What do you mean by

Josiah asked, “Is Xavier with you right

he is.

your phone on speaker for me?

her phone on speaker as she continued, “What did you mean

the phone and so distracted that she nearly bumped into pedestrians a couple of times. I grew worried about her safety when I saw how anxious she looked, so I followed her using my car. That was when I saw her make her way into a bank to use the ATM. There’s nothing strange about a person withdrawing money, but she was on the phone the whole time. I was worried that she might’ve been conned into transferring her money to some stranger, so I decided to go talk to her. However, she was already leaving the bank when I parked my car by the roadside. Judging by the bulge on her handbag, I’d say she must’ve withdrawn a huge amount of cash using multiple cards. As you know,

after that? Did you follow her? Was there anyone else

forced. I wanted to follow her, but I got stopped by a police officer for a parking violation. I assume your granny is home

right, thanks!” Winnie said and hung

up, she removed

“Oh, shoot! Josiah said he wanted to talk to you about something, but

bet he’s so busy dealing with the traffic police that it slipped his mind. That means it probably wasn’t something important, so

actually knew that Josiah wanted to tell him

trying to help someone else escape. Considering how she was speaking to someone on the phone for so long, I’d say the latter is a lot more likely. Of course, this is all just my hypothesis. I’ll have to confirm it myself before I

said as he got off the bed and fetched Winnie her

Jacinta as

time, Jacinta answered the

Why are you calling me all of a sudden? Shouldn’t

Jacinta sounded, but she was still a

were you talking to on the phone? I tried calling you earlier, but I couldn’t get through. That was ten to twenty

was on the phone with Rach. She says she’ll be going home soon and

I see. When will she be leaving? Maybe I could go

have the time to do that? I’m not too sure when she’ll be leaving, though. Maybe in the next two days or so. Her dad says he

do

a while before continuing, “Yes, we do. I just went out to withdraw some earlier. Are

decided to go along with her statement. “Yeah, kind of. But it’s fine if you don’t

plenty to spare. Don’t you young ones use your phones to

her question, Winnie responded with another

back. Her father tells me there are plenty of starving children and old people in their village, so I figured I’d try to help them out. Things aren’t as modern in the village, so they use cash for everything