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.”

hands dirty, so he gets someone else to help him

me, Granny 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 more to Granny than meets the eye. I feel like Granny knew exactly what she was doing all along. In fact, she might’ve been the one

up crying after saying that last

never seen her this upset before, and it pained him

asked, “How about I send you home instead?

brief pause, “It’s

then pulled out her phone and called Mary, who was in charge of looking after

doing? Is she all right?” Winnie asked the moment the call got

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

her into eating. Remember, do not let her contact

Sumner would want to contact

talk later. Inform me immediately

the phone

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

don’t want him calling us,”

will you

that I’m not sure yet. I’ll have to talk to Granny when I get back.” Winnie then looked straight ahead as she continued, “Step on it. We need to get this

and

soon arrived at the