Silly Bride

Chapter 17

With that, he pressed a button on his motorized wheelchair and headed out. He did not even bother to turn his head to face Winnie when he rejected her. After leaving the private room, he took out his phone and dialed Winnie’s number. Winnie was still standing dumbfounded in the private room, deliberating if she should go after her potential partner. Suddenly, she saw something lit up in her bag and knew it was her phone screen coming on. She had muted her phone and left it in her bag before entering the bar. Fishing out the phone, she realized that it was Xavier calling her. Winnie did not pick up his call but stared at the phone until the screen dimmed. That was when Xavier, who was just outside the private room, hung up and kept his phone. Both of them were in such close proximity but brushed past one another due to their hidden identities and good disguise. Winnie wondered if Xavier called her because he realized she had gone missing. However, she was also curious as to why he only called once. Next, her imagination ran wild, and she started imagining him busy getting raunchy with Kylie. Kylie was so smug and confident, so she must have given Xavier a high dose of the drug. Where can they be? Are they in his luxurious and spacious office? Oh gosh! Snap out of this, Winnie! What has that gotta do with you? Winnie was annoyed with herself when she realized she seemed to care about Xavier. He never hid his disdain for you, his “dumb” wife, and had plans to divorce you. So why do you care if he’s being manipulated? Back at Fairchild Corporation, Xavier’s assistant, Louis, was already waiting for him in the lobby when he rushed back. “Where is she? Have you found her?” Xavier asked. “No. The surveillance footage showed Mrs. Fairchild heading to the toilet. Then she appeared to have lost her way and wandered around the building mindlessly. She was last seen in the underground car park. Unfortunately, there were some blind areas in the car park, so we lost track of her after that,” Louis reported. “Get going and search for her! Search the whole car park and every single car in it. She could be hiding in one of the cars, or maybe even crawled under one