The Substitute Bride: Idiot Or Not? novel Chapter 70

“Go now!” Xavier shouted, visibly shocked by the unexpected turn of events.

However, he quickly recollected himself and started backing away, still using his body to shield Winnie. “Don't worry about me. Just jump into the water!”

Winnie glanced at the bleeding wound on his abdomen and frowned.

“It's useless to jump off now. We've already sailed into the high seas, and it'd be impossible to swim back to shore. Our only option now is to take these brutes down and seize control of the boat! Besides, you need to stop your bleeding. If you jump down now, you'll die.”

Even if neither of us was hurt, jumping into the cold waters now will eventually kill us both!

“We won't be able to overpower them,” Xavier muttered as his eyes fell on the deck below. “There are more coming.”

Sure enough, Winnie followed his gaze and saw another group of men heading toward them. “D*mn it! We've been too careless!”

“Listen to me and jump!” Xavier insisted as he turned to look at her. “Otherwise, it'd be too late once they've surrounded us!”

At that moment, Winnie did trust the man in front of her.

She believed that no matter the circumstances, he'd always find a way to get them out safe and sound.

For example, when they previously went to rescue Yulissa, Xavier whipped out two fake bombs he had prepared and scared the living daylights out of the kidnappers.

Alas, with the latter getting stabbed this time round, things weren't looking as rosy as before.

Before she jumped, Winnie shot a last glance at Xavier. “My family heirloom is still with you, and I intend to get it back. You're not going to die here, are you?”

“Of course not!” Xavier replied as he suddenly put something around Winnie's wrist and gave her a shove.

In that split second, Winnie seemed to see Hugo stab Xavier again, and she could almost taste the blood in the air.

The next thing she knew, she had hit the water with a loud splash.

For a moment, she was utterly disoriented and could only feel herself sinking into the murky depths of the sea.

Thankfully, it didn't take long before she regained her senses and swam to the surface.

When she finally popped her head out of the water, she realized the yacht was already more than ten meters away from her.

Even though Winnie couldn't see anything clearly due to the poor visibility at sea, she still heard three consecutive sounds of heavy objects plunging into the sea.

Oh, sh*t. That must be Xavier and his men getting thrown off the boat!

Without further ado, Winnie dived back into the sea and swam toward the source of the sound.

With the help of the pale moonlight, she saw a dark figure in front of her sinking rapidly, much to her horror.

My goodness! Xavier's sinking so much faster than I did! I'm sure those brutes must have tied weights to him. How cruel of them!

Winnie mustered up all her strength to swim toward the yacht, and it was almost a full minute later when she finally caught hold of Xavier.

As expected, Xavier had metal weights around him, and Winnie had to drag him to the surface while untying his ropes.

Needless to say, it was a monumental task. The latter hadn't even managed to untie the ropes when the two of them started sinking again.

Fortunately, Winnie had hidden a small blade in her boots which she quickly used to cut the ropes.

Now that the weights were off, they finally stopped sinking, but another problem soon arose.

Xavier seemed to have keeled over due to excessive blood loss, and since he couldn't hold his breath in the water, it wouldn't be long before he drowned.