Silly Bride

Chapter 57

able to convince Josiah Houghton like Louis Tanser? After all, he’s a doctor. If he asks me questions about medical knowledge or Paulina’s job in the hospital, what am I supposed to do?Winnie helped Xavier to sit on the edge of the bed and was about to stretch out her hand to unfasten the buttons on his shirt. Nevertheless, he shrugged her hand off with quite a powerful smack, resulting in burning pain on the back of her hand. “Don’t touch me. I can help myself. Just get me a set of pajamas from the wardrobe.”When Winnie turned to get Xavier’s pajamas as instructed, she could not help chastising him inwardly again. D*mn it! How could this b*stard hit women? He slapped Yulissa just now and smacked my hand again! What a sc*mbag! Anyway, that heinous woman deserved it. In fact, he should have slapped her harder! Oh! How I missed those days when I used to disguise myself as a silly woman. I could order him to do anything back then and even tease him whenever I was in the mood.Winnie had only taken the pajamas out of the wardrobe before Xavier gave his orders consecutively. “Bring me the clothes and turn yourself around. You can give Josiah a call now.”She had no choice but to turn around. Hmph! What’s the point of covering himself? Didn’t he know that I’d already seen him naked before this?Seeing that Winnie remained motionless, Xavier queried impatiently, “What are you waiting for? Don’t you have his phone number?”“Yes, I do.” Winnie turned her back toward him before she whipped out her phone. “I’ll call Dr. Houghton now.”“Turn on the speaker.”“Okay, Mr. Fairchild.”Josiah answered the call very soon, and Winnie greeted him first, “Hello, Dr. Houghton. I’m Paulina.”“Oh! Paulina, what’s wrong? Aren’t you at Mr. Fairchild’s place now? Did anything happen?” Josiah asked on the other end of the line at once.“Nothing. It’s inconvenient for Mr. Fairchild to make a phone call now. Thus, he told me to relay his message to you that he has something to discuss with you. Would you mind coming over?” “Huh?” Josiah was stunned. “He only broke his leg, didn’t he? Don’t tell me he even has a broken arm now.”Winnie was rendered speechless.Meanwhile, Xavier chimed in, “Dr. Houghton, if you’re not busy now, can you come over at once?”“Okay! I’ll be there in half an hour,” Josiah replied, feeling surprised when Xavier addressed him as Dr. Houghton.When Josiah reached twenty minutes later, Winnie was about to step forward to brief him about Xavier’s condition. Nevertheless, he gestured to her to stop. “Wait a minute. I’ll go in to have a look first.”“Okay!” Winnie beamed sweetly, but two options had already popped into her mind at the same time.For the first option, she would make her way toward the door, open it, and leave at once. However, all her efforts would