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.”

his hands dirty, so he gets someone else to help him do it. Since Shania happens to have

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 more to Granny than meets the eye.

up crying after

her this upset before, and

about I send you home instead? You could get some rest

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

called Mary, who was in

my granny doing? Is she all right?” Winnie

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 a

this further when I get back. For now, just try your best to talk her into eating. Remember, do not let her contact anyone other than

don’t think Mdm. Sumner would

talk later. Inform me immediately if

up the phone after

you reply to Stuart’s message? In fact, should we even be replying

don’t want him calling us,” Winnie replied

will you

Winnie then looked straight ahead as she continued, “Step on it. We need

nodded and

arrived at the