Silly Bride

Chapter 87

him. “No. I’m tired, so I’d like to go to bed. You should go to bed too so your leg can recover faster.”“Okay.”After switching off the lights, Winnie climbed into bed. She tossed and turned but could not fall asleep.The entire bed smelled strongly of Xavier.Ugh, the bed smells of the b*stard. I should’ve picked a guest room and slept there. But the bed in the master bedroom looked really comfortable.Perhaps she had missed the optimum time to fall asleep, for she was not sleepy at all.As she could not sleep a wink, she got up and called Nathaniel.Nathaniel had to keep in touch with many overseas contacts, so he kept odd hours despite arriving in Chanaea a while ago.As Nathaniel answered her call almost immediately, she presumed he was still working at this hour.“Hello, Vinnie. You finally remember your partner, huh?” Nathaniel had given her the nickname “Vinnie.” “I’m sorry. I ran into trouble recently and didn’t stay in touch for the past few days,” Winnie told him.“Oh, I should be apologizing. You don’t know which will arrive first, trouble or tomorrow. Are you all right now?”“Yes, I’m fine,” Winnie assured him.“Great. It might be half past four in the morning, but I think you won’t be sleeping anytime soon. Are you interested in reading a proposal about Garland Group?” Nathaniel asked earnestly.“Of course. I want to talk to you about Garland Group, too. Send me the file, and I’ll read it now,” Winnie responded.She put on her jacket and strode out of Xavier’s house, heading to her own house one floor below Xavier’s unit. Her laptop and other equipment were there.She had no idea that Xavier called her again after claiming she wanted to go to bed, but then she could not fall asleep. His call came when she was talking to Nathaniel on her phone.It was a different situation this time. Earlier, Xavier made a WhatsApp call. Thus, her phone showed his missed calls.As she was currently in the middle of a call with Nathaniel, her phone did not notify her about the missed calls.Not knowing that Xavier had called her, Winnie threw herself into work.On an island a few hundred kilometers away, Xavier fell into deep thought