Silly Bride novel (Winnie and Xavier) novel Chapter 78

On the other side of the phone, Josiah immediately texted Xavier after receiving his message.

Josiah: What’s going on? Louis told me you’re safe from harm now, so how is it inconvenient for you to pick up my call?

Xavier stole a glance at the woman sleeping peacefully in his arms and kissed her on her forehead, not resisting his urges.

He texted again after that: You probably shouldn’t be asking because a man who is still single won’t understand.

Josiah replied: What the hell! What are you trying to tell me? You can’t possibly have found that little Dumbo of yours on that island, can you? I thought you told Louis something’s suspicious about Calvert! The news he gave you is real, after all?

Xavier: It’s complicated. I’ll talk to you about this in detail once I’m back. Also, do me a favor. Perform an investigation on that Paulina. The fake Paulina.

Josiah: But we’ve already tried to find out more about her, did we not? We couldn’t get anything because she was too mysterious. By the way, she went after you that night in the hospital because she felt something was off after you left. Did you see her? Did she come looking for you?

Xavier stole another glance at the woman sleeping beside him.

In his text to Josiah, Xavier typed and deleted his text several times before he finally texted: Yes, I did see her.

Josiah: Oh. So she’s fine?

Recalling the bruises on Winnie’s shoulder, Xavier frowned and replied: She was a little bruised, but it’s all right.

Speaking of which, he remembered being thrown into the ocean with heavy metal weights tied to him. This woman called Paulina risked her life saving him and even performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on him.

Hence, he texted: She saved me.

Josiah: Not bad. You’re lucky enough because you took her things. She said that thing is her family heirloom, and she wouldn’t go all the way there to save you if it weren’t because of that.

Is that so? Xavier frowned, for he did not remember taking something that belonged to her.

Did she really come to my rescue just because of something I had never seen?

He was unconvinced.

Paulina and Dumbo might be the same people.

With that slightly odd-looking face of Paulina, the silica gel on Dumbo’s neck, how their timeline coincidentally merged, and how Dumbo could express what she wanted to say despite looking dumb and naive, the clues were pointing toward the same truth, where Paulina and Dumbo were the same people.

But why is she pretending to be dumb? Why is she disguising herself as Paulina to get close to me? And what’s all this with the family heirloom? What was she looking for in my house?

There were so many questions unanswered that Xavier was eager to bite the woman awake to answer his questions.

However, he was afraid because he saw the decisiveness Paulina displayed.

When Winnie went missing, Paulina appeared, which meant that the woman knew he had never stopped looking for Winnie.

She watched him suffer all the while but never decided to show up.

When he threatened Paulina to rescue Yulissa with him, he lied to her about planting a bomb on her bulletproof vest.

Yet, Paulina decisively left him when someone threw a smoke bomb.

When Winnie was Dumbo, she was naive and pure. However, when she was not, she was firm and decisive.

However, at that time, he had no idea that Paulina was his Dumbo.

If he had known it sooner, there was no way he would threaten and scare her with the bomb.