Silly Bride Chapter 210
Chapter 210
Xavier, too, felt something was amiss.“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 reced 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 exined, “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 ce
and help check on her,” Winnie replied.Josiah’s response, however, shocked her deeply.“It makes
perfect sense that you weren’t able to get through to her. I was going to give you a call even if you
didn’t call me.”Winnie frowned in confusion. “What do you mean by that?”Instead of answering her
question, Josiah asked, “Is Xavier with you right now?”“Yes, he is. What’s wrong?”“Oh, there’s just
something I need to talk to him about. Mind putting your phone on speaker for me? It’ll save me the
trouble of having to call him,” Josiah replied after giving it some thought.“Okay.” Winnie then put her
phone on speaker as she continued, “What did you mean by that question earlier?”“I got held up with
something, so it was prettyte when I went home. I happened to bump into Mdm. Sumner on the way
back. She was on 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,
there’s a limit to how much one can withdraw from an ATM. Don’t you find that strange?”Winnie
frowned slightly. “It’s strange indeed. What happened after that? Did you follow her? Was there anyone
else around her? Was she being forced or threatened?”“It didn’t seem like she was forced. I wanted to
follow her, but I got stopped by a police officer for a parking vition. I assume your granny is home by
now, but I’m still stuck here at the moment. Maybe you should go home and check on her,” Josiah
replied.“All right, thanks!” Winnie said and hung up the phone.Since the time for the acupuncture
treatment was up, she removed the needles on Xavier’s head as well.While packing the needles, she
recalled something and eximed, “Oh, shoot! Josiah said he wanted to talk to you about something,
but I hung up the phone before he could talk to you!”“It’s fine. I bet he’s so busy dealing with the traffic
police that it slipped his mind. That means it probably wasn’t something important, so he can tell me
about itter,” Xavier reassured her.He actually knew that Josiah wanted to tell him about Jacinta.In
this modern age, most people would just transfer money via inte banking, so there’s no reason for
anyone to carry so much cash on them. Unless, of course, they don’t want that transaction to be
traceable online. I’m guessing Mdm. Sumner either ns to make an escape or is trying to help
someone else escape. Considering how she was speaking to someone on the phone for so long, I’d
say thetter is a lot more likely. Of course, this is all just my hypothesis. I’ll have to confirm it myself
before I tell Dumbo there’s something suspicious about her granny. “Come on, let’s head back to Aqua
Moana,” Xavier said as he got off the bed and fetched Winnie her handbag from the couch.“Right!”
Winnie began calling Jacinta as they walked out of there.This time, Jacinta answered the phone fairlyUpstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g
quickly.“What is it, Winnie? Why are you calling me all of a sudden? Shouldn’t you be resting
instead?”Winnie breathed a sigh of relief when she heard how normal Jacinta sounded, but she was
still a bit concerned after hearing what Josiah said earlier.“Oh, I’m not tired. By the way, Granny, who
were you talking to on the phone? I tried calling you earlier, but I couldn’t get through. That was ten to
twenty minutes ago.”“Ah, you were calling me? I didn’t know because I was on the phone with Rach.
She says she’ll be going home soon and asks if I could take her out for onest nice meal. I guess I got
a little carried away while chatting with her.”“Oh, I see. When will she be leaving? Maybe I could go say
goodbye.”“Are you sure you 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 hasn’t bought their tickets yet. I’ll let you know when
I find out.”“All right. By the way, do we have cash at home?”“Cash?” Jacinta paused for quite a while
before continuing, “Yes, we do. I just went out to withdraw some earlier. Are you in need of
cash?”Winnie decided to go along with her statement. “Yeah, kind of. But it’s fine if you don’t have
enough to spare.”“Oh, I withdrew quite a lot of money, so there’s plenty to spare. Don’t you young ones
use your phones to pay for everything these days? What would you need the cash for?”Instead of
answering her question, Winnie responded with another question. “Why did you withdraw so much
cash, Granny?”“It’s for Rach to bring back. Her father tells me there are plenty of starving children and
old people in their vige, so I figured I’d try to help them out. Things aren’t as modern in the vige, so
they use cash for everything there,” Jacinta replied.“Ah, that makes sense. Why didn’t you tell me you
were going to help the poor? I could do it for you, so you can just keep your money for yourself.”“You
give me way too much money as is. Besides, the money I havees from you anyway, so it makes
no difference. Will you being home for dinner tonight? I’ll make you anything you like.”“I haven’t
decided on that. I’ll drop by the house in a bit, so we can talk about thister.”“Okay. I’ll wait for you to
come home, then.”Winnie then hung up the phone and took her handbag over from Xavier as she said,
“It looks like she’s fine. I was probably just overthinking it. I can go home on my own, so you don’t need
toe with me.”Xavier nodded. “All right. I happen to have some business to take care of
anyway.”“Make sure to get enough rest.” Winnie then gave him a kiss before leaving.Xavier waited until
she was gone before pulling out his phone and sending a text: Look up the call history for this phone
number today. Get it done as soon as possible.It had barely been two minutes before Xavier received
Jacinta’s call history.The number that she was on a call with for twenty minutes indeed belonged to
Rachel’s father.Xavier frowned in confusion when he saw that.Am I being paranoid, or is Mdm. Sumner
a lot smarter than I thought?Winnie gave Rachel’s father a call on her way back.“Hi, Mr. Zimmerman.
Granny tells me you’re going to bring Rach back soon. Have you decided on the date yet? Do let me
know when you are able to confirm it. I’ll pop over to see you guys off if I’m avable. No, it’s no trouble
at all!”Meanwhile, at Aqua Moana, Jacinta pulled out another phone from under her nket and
punched in a number.“I think they’re onto me. I can’t use the cash that I’ve prepared for you, but I’ll
figure something out. Make sure to stay hidden, okay? I’ll make a trip to the docks in a few days. It’s a
very shady ce, so it’d be perfect for you to hide there. You must remember to keep your cool, do you
understand? Someday, you’ll be able to take back what belongs to you.”The front door made a loud
click as Winnie opened it and entered the house.As Jacinta’s bedroom door was wide open, Winnie
saw her sitting on the side of her bed.Although Winnie couldn’t tell what she was doing as Jacinta had
her back facing the door, she did hear Jacinta mumbling something.“Hi, Granny! Who are you talking
to?” Winnie asked with a frown as she made her way over.