Silly Bride novel (Winnie and Xavier) novel Chapter 229

“Ms. Garland?” Greta repeated, for she realized that Winnie did not reply to her.

Indeed, Winnie was silent for a few seconds as she did not expect Zyon to be there. However, she soon made a decision.

“Greta, are you confident? If you’re not confident about getting a good aim from this distance, let’s not alert them to our plan first.”

Winnie’s voice was steady, and there was no trace of panic to be heard from it.

In confidence, Greta replied, “No problem. Once he gets out of the car, I’ll be able to fire the perfect shot from my position.”

“Good.” Winnie had trust in Greta’s ability as a sniper. “I’ll leave him to you, then.”

Upon giving out the order, she quickly ran up to the second floor with Mason and the others.

Thanks to the information given by Greta earlier, Winnie easily found the room Jacinta and Rachel were in.

Their entrance had been so sudden that Jacinta nearly leaped in fright.

Nevertheless, the elderly woman was quick to come back to her senses. She happily stepped forward and held Winnie’s hand before exclaiming, “Winnie, Chris said that we’ll be able to meet soon, but I never thought you’d come so soon! We can leave right now, right?”

“Not yet.” Winnie lifted her index finger to her lips, signaling Jacinta not to talk for the moment.

She then explained, “Zyon suddenly came over, and he has more men than us. We can’t dash out just like this.”

With that said, she strode toward the window.

Jacinta had drawn the curtains closed previously, so it was now convenient for Winnie to discreetly observe the situation downstairs.

However, after she carefully made a small gap between the curtains to look out, she noticed that Zyon was still in his car. It seemed like he was discussing something with the person sitting beside him.

Still, Winnie could not be certain how long Zyon would stay in his car, so she dared not take the risk and bring her grandmother downstairs to leave the place.

All she did was take out her phone to quickly compose a message to Christopher.

Winnie: I’m at the destination. I’ve found Zyon here. I’ll deal with him.

Yet, right as Winnie sent out that message and before she could receive a reply from Christopher, she spotted Zyon exiting his car downstairs.

Without missing a beat, she pressed her earpiece and said to Greta, who was hiding outside, “Now.”

Greta’s response was instantaneous, “Got it. Over.”

However, two seconds later, a low cry from Greta came from Winnie’s earpiece as if Greta had met some kind of accident.

In the next second, the sound of a car window shattering came from downstairs.

Almost simultaneously, someone downstairs shouted, “There’s a sniper! Get in the car now!”

Winnie promptly drew the curtains apart to look down.

The car window that Zyon was in earlier had been shattered, but Zyon and the others were back inside the car.

At the sight of the car turning to leave, Winnie whipped out her pistol to fire at the car.

Alas, not only did she not hit the tires, but she even initiated their opponent’s retaliation.

Countless bullets flew toward her. Not daring to show herself at the window anymore, Winnie had no choice but to crouch down.

“Greta, are you okay? What happened on your side?”

“I’m sorry, Ms. Garland,” came Greta’s guilt-filled voice. “I was bitten by a snake on the tree just now, so my bullet strayed. I saw them heading south.”

“Why did you—” Right as Winnie was about to say something, Christopher’s message came.

He wrote: We must not let Zyon go back to the Horton residence!

The exclamation at the end of his message was an indicator of how grave the situation was. How could Winnie not understand it? She hammered the wall and uttered in a low voice, “Go after him! We can’t afford to let him run!”

Right then, Xavier, who had been silent the entire time, spoke, his voice traveling out of the earpiece.

“Why do you have to take the risk and go after him? The only thing we must do right now is to save your granny and Rachel.”