Silly Bride

Chapter 70

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. No, I can’t let him die now! Otherwise, all my efforts to save him would go to waste!With that, Winnie cupped Xavier’s face and exhaled her breath into his mouth.While doing so, she continued to kick her legs in an attempt to propel them upward.Suddenly, Xavier’s eyes shot open, which could only mean he had regained consciousness.Shortly after, Winnie felt him grabbing her wrist and pressing down on a button.The next second, her arm went momentarily numb as an airbag popped out from the strap around her wrist and pulled her toward the surface.Ah! So that’s what Xavier put on my wrist before I jumped! It’s an emergency airbag! What about him, though? He should also have one, shouldn’t he?Winnie instinctively turned around, and when she saw another airbag surfacing rapidly, she heaved a sigh of relief.Thank goodness things turned out the way I had hoped! This man always has a backup plan!A few minutes later, Winnie and Xavier safely surfaced one after another.Not too far away, two other people soon popped their heads out of the water, and Winnie guessed they must be Xavier’s bodyguard and driver. All in all, she was just glad everyone was safe.The moon had gradually disappeared behind the clouds, leaving them in a sea of darkness. The yacht was also long gone, and without any sources of light nearby, neither Winnie nor Xavier could see each other clearly.“How are you feeling? Is your wound okay?” Winnie asked anxiously.“It’s not good.”“Then let me bandage it for you. We can’t leave it exposed to seawater,” Winnie replied as she removed her jacket and took off her cotton tank top. “Where’s your injury? Is it on the abdomen or somewhere else?”Since the airbag had freed up Winnie’s hands, it’d be easy for her to tend to Xavier’s injuries once she could pinpoint the location of the wounds.Alas, it was difficult to see in the dark, and being in the water made the task all the more challenging.Before Winnie knew it, she had accidentally touched the man somewhere inappropriate.Just as she was about to apologize for it, Xavier slapped her hand away.“Don’t touch me.”Winnie did feel sorry about the accidental touch, but after seeing Xavier’s rude reaction, a fresh swell of rage rose in her.“What the hell is wrong with you? You refused to let me touch you when I worked at your house as a caretaker. Now that your life is at stake, is it wrong for me to want to bandage your wounds? Do you think I want to touch you that badly?”Although she couldn’t see anything in the dark, Winnie could still feel the icy glare from Xavier.The latter suddenly snatched the tank top from her and wrapped it around his wounds himself. “No other woman, except my wife, is allowed to touch my body.”Winnie stared incredulously in the man’s direction and decided to pop the question that had bothered her for a while.“I honestly have no idea what you’re thinking. Your wife’s missing a few screws, isn’t she? You despised her and even wanted to abandon her, but you’re now risking your life to look for her because of some false information. Don’t you think that sounds ridiculous and ironic?”“Maybe,” Xavier mumbled. “But you won’t understand it.”Even I only realized it after I had lost her.The moment he finished speaking, they saw his driver swimming toward them.“Are you all right, Mr. Fairchild? A fishing boat seems to be coming our way,