Silly Bride novel (Winnie and Xavier)

Winnie furrowed her brows as she handed him the phone.

Josiah took it over from her and read the message out loud, “The celebrity has been bailed out. All that’s left to do is to wait for Xavier to come back. When will he be back?”

After reading through the text, Josiah scrolled through the phone’s inbox and said, “I don’t see any other messages. What does this mean? Who’s the celebrity? What are they planning to do?”

Winnie massaged her aching forehead. “I don’t know. Let me think…”

Josiah nodded and returned the phone to her. “Just take your time. Here, I’ll drive while you think about it.”

“Okay.” Winnie knew she was in no condition to drive, so she did as told and swapped places with him.

After getting into the passenger seat, Winnie rolled the window down fully to get some fresh air.

As it was quite a windy day in the countryside, the fresh air blowing on her face helped clear her head instantly.

She turned to look at Josiah and exclaimed, “Oh, I remember now! The celebrity named Shania Hamilton! She got arrested a while back for assaulting someone with a knife. She was aiming for me, but Nate shielded me from the attack. We then called the police and had her arrested.”

“Oh, right, I remember that incident! You told me she hated you because Xavier had her blacklisted, right?” Josiah asked with a frown.

“Yeah.” Winnie nodded. “That’s exactly what happened. Well, technically, she wasn’t just aiming for me. She was also going for Xavier.”

wants Xavier dead, but he doesn’t want to get his hands dirty, so he gets someone else to help him do it. Since Shania happens to have

asked me about Shania’s motives when we were done giving our statements at the police station. She told me that she asked the police officers about Shania’s motives, but they didn’t tell her anything. Had I not told my granny the truth, she wouldn’t have figured it out even if she had been present at the scene. Stuart somehow managed to find out about it and is using Shania to get at Xavier. How did he find out, though? Could it be that Granny provided him with that information? I was wondering if Granny had been tricked into helping Stuart out, but… Now that I think about it, there might be

up crying after saying that last

seen her this upset before, and it pained him deeply to hear

“How about I send you home instead? You could get some rest while I head

and replied after a brief pause, “It’s fine. I don’t feel like

phone and called Mary, who was in charge

how is my granny doing? Is she all right?” Winnie asked the moment

a little worried as she said, “Same old. She still won’t eat, drink, or speak to anyone. Mrs. Fairchild, should we send her to

just try your best to talk her into eating. Remember, do not let her contact anyone other than me,” Winnie replied with a

Mdm. Sumner would

Inform me immediately if anything

hung up the phone after saying

asked, “By the way, how will you reply

should. We don’t want him calling us,” Winnie

you tell

I’ll have to talk to Granny when I get back.” Winnie then

and floored the

soon arrived at