Both of them slept early last night. Hence, they woke up early in the morning.
Winnie’s drowsiness disappeared after she was woken by them. Thus, she decided to get out of bed and have breakfast with them.
When Winnie was having her oatmeal, she realized that Jacinta’s countenance seemed pale.
“Granny, did you not sleep well last night? You have dark circles under your eyes,” she asked in concern.
“Really?”
As soon as Jacinta spoke, Rachel chimed in and cut her off, “I know. Hehe, Granny sleepwalked last night, so she didn’t sleep well.”
Winnie subconsciously glanced at Jacinta and asked, “Sleepwalk? I didn’t know you sleepwalked last night, Granny. I was sleeping soundly, so I didn’t realize anything.”
“Don’t listen to Rach’s nonsense. I don’t have the habit of sleepwalking,” Jacinta flatly denied it.
She then looked at Rachel and asked, “Why would you say that? A good girl should never lie.”
“I’m not lying!” Rachel frowned and continued, “I woke up in the middle of the night last night to pee and walked to the balcony by mistake.”
Jacinta widened her eyes in shock. “What? Did you pee on the balcony?” she asked.
Rachel chuckled and said, “Hehe, just a little. I couldn’t hold it in anymore.”
“Oh my, why didn’t you say so earlier? I’m going to check on it!”
“You should finish your breakfast first, Granny. It was already there the whole night anyway,” Winnie advised when she saw Jacinta standing up from her seat.
Jacinta thought Winnie was right. Hence, she sat back down.
Rachel was frightened when she saw Jacinta stand up.
She knew she had done something wrong and that it was not right to pee anywhere she wanted.
Thus, Rachel lowered her head and apologized softly, “Granny, Winnie, I’m sorry. I will never do it again.”
“It’s good that you know your mistake. You shouldn’t do it again, got it? I shouldn’t let you drink milk tonight before you sleep. It must be the milk.”
“Yes, it was because of the milk!” Rachel nodded, blaming the milk.
Winnie looked at Rachel and found her behavior amusing. However, at the same time, she felt sorry for the latter.
They quickly moved on from what Rachel did. However, Winnie remembered what Rachel said about Jacinta sleepwalking.
If what Rachel said was true, she would need to take Jacinta to the hospital.
Winnie smiled and looked at Rachel, asking “Rach, what were you saying just now? You said you went to the balcony to pee, and what did you see? Did you see Granny sleepwalking?”
“Yes!” Rachel nodded without hesitation. “I saw Granny, and she was on her phone on the balcony,” she added.
Jacinta’s expression changed immediately when she heard what Rachel said.
“Rach, were you dreaming? I went to bed early last night. Why would I be on my phone on the balcony?”
“No, I saw it. Granny was on her phone.”
Jacinta shook her head and denied it. “That’s impossible! It must be your imagination. Who could I have called in the middle of the night?”
Subsequently, she turned to Winnie, “If you don’t believe me, you can check my call history. I’m sure I didn’t call anyone last night.”
Winnie also wanted to know if Jacinta was sleepwalking. After all, sleepwalkers usually wouldn’t remember what they did while they were sleepwalking.
She took the phone from Jacinta and checked the call history. As expected, there was no phone call recorded in the call history.
“Rach must’ve been dreaming last night,” Winnie concluded.
Jacinta agreed, “Exactly. I think she was in a daze last night. She even peed on the balcony.”
As Jacinta spoke, she put a piece of fried egg on Rachel’s plate. She warned, “You’re a good girl and have to be responsible for what you said. The bad witch will come and capture you if you talk nonsense.”
Rachel blinked innocently. She didn’t think that she was lying. However, she felt that Jacinta’s gaze was scary when the latter warned her about the bad witch.
She was so frightened that she even forgot to eat her oatmeal.
Winnie lowered her head and chewed on her bagel. She didn’t pay attention to the look on both of their faces and merely said cursorily, “Granny, stop scaring her.”
As she spoke, she hastily finished her oatmeal and added, “I’m done. I’ll take my leave now, Granny. Call me if you need anything.”
Winnie took the elevator, and to her surprise, she bumped into Xavier as she entered the elevator.
Xavier was looking at his phone when she entered the elevator.
Winnie accidentally saw Xavier’s phone screen from the corner of her eyes.
She thought Xavier was replying to a message on his phone in the elevator, and she certainly didn’t expect him to be looking at the photo they had taken together last night.
In the photo, both of them were sitting on the couch, and there was some distance between them.
After taking the photo, Winnie edited the image and added the caption “Xavier Fairchild, the patient” beside him and another caption “Winnie Garland, the doctor” next to herself.
He even wanted to change my contact name on his phone. Why would he keep this photo?
Winnie retracted her gaze from Xavier’s phone screen and asked, “Mr. Fairchild, do you still remember me?”
“Of course, Dr. Garland,” Xavier enunciated each word slowly.
“Not bad. How is it? You look handsome in the photo, right? Is that why you are admiring it?”
“Admiring the photo? Not really,” Xavier replied. He subconsciously stroked Winnie’s face in the photo with his thumb, then continued, “I was just about to delete the photo.”
With that, he deleted the photo right before Winnie’s eyes.
She felt a tightness in her chest when she saw what Xavier did. However, she managed to calm herself down quickly.
“It’s okay. We can take another one next time.”
Xavier parted his lips, but he didn’t say anything and ignored Winnie.
In fact, he was excited when he woke up this morning, realizing that he still had memories of what had happened the previous day.
However, when he looked at the redness in his eyes in the mirror, he knew that his condition was still not stable enough.
Therefore, he still had to hide the truth before his condition was completely stable.
Honestly, Xavier felt uncomfortable in an enclosed space like the elevator. He was afraid that he would go mad and attack himself or Winnie.
He felt it was necessary for him to go and see Josiah and get some sedatives from the latter.
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