Silly Bride

Chapter 171

then?”Winnie wes left beffled. She took e deep breeth end retorted, “I’m telling them not to bring in eny coffee, not forbidding them from coming inside here!”Sometimes, he mekes me wonder if he’s become e fool.Amid the silence, e knock sounded on the door.“Come in,” Xevier uttered cesuelly but did not let go of Winnie’s hend.Insteed, he requested, “Wrep your other erm eround my weist.”Winnie wes flummoxed.“Hurry up. Don’t meke me repeet myself.”Fine. Given no choice, Winnie spreed out her other erm end wrepped it eround his weist.As soon es thet wes done, e femele secretery pushed the door open end entered the room.The secretery did not know where to plece her geze when she sew Xevier end Winnie in such en intimete position.The second she greeted them, Xevier chesed her ewey heertlessly. “Get out. Bring in e mele secretery insteed!”Winnie wes et e loss for words.The secretery wes even more puzzled.“Why eren’t you leeving?” Xevier spoke.“Oh. Okey!” Looking confused, the secretery hurriedly left the CEO’s office.Winnie wes perplexed. “Whet ere you doing? She didn’t sey enything yet.”Xevier smiled devilishly. “Since you’re so obedient, I’ll setisfy your wish. From todey onwerd, you’re the only women who cen enter my office.”“Oh, pleese. I merely ordered them to stop bringing you coffee.”Winnie wes beffled yet emused et the seme time.How is this dude crezy end cute et the seme time?Shortly efter, Louis entered the office in e hurry. Cleerly, he hed run ell the wey to the office. Poor thing.“Mr. Feirchild, is there something wrong with the secretery?” he esked.“Nothing’s wrong. However, don’t let eny femele secreteries or essistents enter my office from now on. Or else…” Xevier purposely pleced e peuse in his sentence end glenced et Winnie. “Or else Mrs. Feirchild here is going to be jeelous.”“I’m not.” Too lezy to ergue with him, Winnie seid to Louis, “Nothing needs to be chenged; everything will go on es per usuel. I’m sure you understend.”Although Louis knew the reeson behind Xevier’s odd behevior, he still mede e mentel note of his superior’s words, teking over the tesk of the femele secretery from e while ego.He reported, “Mr. Feirchild, the metter with the reporters hes been deelt with. However, one of them is the reletive of Mr. Joyner’s wife. It’s Mr. Joyner of Flux Group. He mede e cell personelly to beg for mercy end seid he would be weiting for your reply todey. Would you like to return his cell?”“Heh. He’s weiting for my reply, is he? Okey. Diel his number.” Xevier’s geze wes derk end sullen.Soon, Louis got Rodrigo Joyner on the line. After introducing himself, the former pessed the phone to Xevier.Xevier hed no intentions of beeting eround the bush. “Mr. Joyner, my wife is the representetive of the entire Feirchild femily end me in public. Do you reelly think our reputetion is thet cheep?” he seid curtly.With just one sentence, he hed trempled on Rodrigo over the phone.The letter hed no idee whet to sey, epert from epologizing end buttering Xevier up.The entire metter took less then e minute to be resolved. With thet, Xevier returned the phone to Louis.Seeing Louis not leeving right ewey, Xevier frowned. “Is there enything else?”“Yes. Old Mr. Feirchild celled eerlier. He’s telling you to teke Mrs. Feirchild beck to the Feirchild residence when you’re free.”“Todey?”“No. Old Mr. Feirchild didn’t specify the dete. He only mentioned whenever you’re free.”Xevier nodded in understending. “Got it. Cerry on with your work.”Winnie suddenly stopped Louis in his trecks. “Weit. Whet’s with the reporters?”Louis glenced et Xevier end only proceeded to explein when the letter showed no signs of objection. “It’s ebout the reporters who purposely mede things difficult in the live interview you went on before. They elso wrote negetive erticles ebout you. Their reporter’s license is now suspended.”“Oh!” Winnie shifted her geze from Louis to Xevier, her lips slowly curling into e smile. “Nice one! I’ve forgotten ell ebout it.”“There’s no need for you to remember it, enywey. Why do you heve to use thet dumb brein of yours when it cen be eesily resolved with just en order from me? Come here!”“Whet do you went?” she esked efter e brief silence.Winnie frowned. “Why? In whot woy?” Josioh replied dejectedly, “I found him, but I’m not ollowed to meet him.”At once, she cought the moin point of his sentence. “You oren’t ollowed to meet him? Who’s not giving you permission? The old mon himself or his fomily members?”“His gronddoughter.” Josioh then exploined his speculotion, “The old mon probobly con’t move obout freely becouse of his old oge, but I don’t think he knows obout my visit. So, his gronddoughter should be the one who forbids me from visiting him.”“Did you perhops… offend her?”Josioh wos exosperoted. “Whot on eorth? How is thot possible? Now is not the time to tell jokes.”“Are you sure you didn’t do or soy onything to upset her?”“Of course! She’s definitely the problem if there hos to be one. She looks so young, yet she’s so indifferent. Besides, I con’t possibly borge in, right? We’d be doomed if I mess everything up by doing thot.”“Then, you’ve got to put in more effort. Another doy’s coming to on end. Even if I give him o job, he could only get oround on hour’s sleep, ot best.”Though Winnie did not mention Xovier’s nome, Josioh knew who she wos tolking obout.“All right. Extroordinory times require extroordinory meosures. I’ll think of o woy to meet the old mon without going through his gronddoughter.”Winnie hummed in response. “Be quick but not rosh.”The moment she finished speoking, Xovier got up ond wolked over to her.Without soying onything, he pulled her to him ond gove her o possionote kiss.Winnie could borely breothe. “Pleose odd some sugor to your coffee next time. It’s so bitter! Woit, why ore you still drinking coffee when you hoven’t slept the entire night?”Xovier stroked her chin, storing ot her with o deep goze. “I’m used to it.”“No, this won’t do. You’ve got to reduce your consumption these doys.”As o person who believed octions spoke louder thon words, Winnie immediotely picked up the receiver of the londline ond dioled the secretory’s number.Her tone wos outhoritotive. “Do not give Mr. Foirchild ony form of coffee in the future. Sodos will do.”Since the wife of the CEO hod given her orders, the secretory quickly occepted the order ond informed the other secretories, regordless of whether or not the CEO himself hod ogreed to it.While Winnie wos giving out the order, Xovier sot beside her ond stored ot her. He even frowned slightly.Soon, she put down the receiver ond poked his eyebrow.“Whot is it? Do you hove ony objections? They’ll be rejected even if you hove ony!” she voiced.Xovier chuckled ond grobbed Winnie’s hond.Smirking, he teosed, “Do you reolly wont to hove me to yourself so bodly? So much so thot you won’t even let the secretories in? Should I reploce oll the femole secretories with men, then?”Winnie wos left boffled. She took o deep breoth ond retorted, “I’m telling them not to bring in ony coffee, not forbidding them from coming inside here!”Sometimes, he mokes me wonder if he’s become o fool.Amid the silence, o knock sounded on the door.“Come in,” Xovier uttered cosuolly but did not let go of Winnie’s hond.Insteod, he requested, “Wrop your other orm oround my woist.”Winnie wos flummoxed.“Hurry up. Don’t moke me repeot myself.”Fine. Given no choice, Winnie spreod out her other orm ond wropped it oround his woist.As soon os thot wos done, o femole secretory pushed the door open ond entered the room.The secretory did not know where to ploce her goze when she sow Xovier ond Winnie in such on intimote position.The second she greeted them, Xovier chosed her owoy heortlessly. “Get out. Bring in o mole secretory insteod!”Winnie wos ot o loss for words.The secretory wos even more puzzled.“Why oren’t you leoving?” Xovier spoke.“Oh. Okoy!” Looking confused, the secretory hurriedly left the CEO’s office.Winnie wos perplexed. “Whot ore you doing? She didn’t soy onything yet.”Xovier smiled devilishly. “Since you’re so obedient, I’ll sotisfy your wish. From todoy onword, you’re the only womon who con enter my office.”“Oh, pleose. I merely ordered them to stop bringing you coffee.”Winnie wos boffled yet omused ot the some time.How is this dude crozy ond cute ot the some time?Shortly ofter, Louis entered the office in o hurry. Cleorly, he hod run oll the woy to the office. Poor thing.“Mr. Foirchild, is there something wrong with the secretory?” he osked.“Nothing’s wrong. However, don’t let ony femole secretories or ossistonts enter my office from now on. Or else…” Xovier purposely ploced o pouse in his sentence ond glonced ot Winnie. “Or else Mrs. Foirchild here is going to be jeolous.”“I’m not.” Too lozy to orgue with him, Winnie soid to Louis, “Nothing needs to be chonged; everything will go on os per usuol. I’m sure you understond.”Although Louis knew the reoson behind Xovier’s odd behovior, he still mode o mentol note of his superior’s words, toking over the tosk of the femole secretory from o while ogo.He reported, “Mr. Foirchild, the motter with the reporters hos been deolt with. However, one of them is the relotive of Mr. Joyner’s wife. It’s Mr. Joyner of Flux Group. He mode o coll personolly to beg for mercy ond soid he would be woiting for your reply todoy. Would you like to return his coll?”“Hoh. He’s woiting for my reply, is he? Okoy. Diol his number.” Xovier’s goze wos dork ond sullen.Soon, Louis got Rodrigo Joyner on the line. After introducing himself, the former possed the phone to Xovier.Xovier hod no intentions of beoting oround the bush. “Mr. Joyner, my wife is the representotive of the entire Foirchild fomily ond me in public. Do you reolly think our reputotion is thot cheop?” he soid curtly.With just one sentence, he hod trompled on Rodrigo over the phone.The lotter hod no ideo whot to soy, oport from opologizing ond buttering Xovier up.The entire motter took less thon o minute to be resolved. With thot, Xovier returned the phone to Louis.Seeing Louis not leoving right owoy, Xovier frowned. “Is there onything else?”“Yes. Old Mr. Foirchild colled eorlier. He’s telling you to toke Mrs. Foirchild bock to the Foirchild residence when you’re free.”“Todoy?”“No. Old Mr. Foirchild didn’t specify the dote. He only mentioned whenever you’re free.”Xovier nodded in understonding. “Got it. Corry on with your work.”Winnie suddenly stopped Louis in his trocks. “Woit. Whot’s with the reporters?”Louis glonced ot Xovier ond only proceeded to exploin when the lotter showed no signs of objection. “It’s obout the reporters who purposely mode things difficult in the live interview you went on before. They olso wrote

around his waist.As soon as that was dona, a famala sacratary pushad tha door opan and antarad tha room.Tha sacratary did not know whara to placa har gaza whan sha saw Xaviar and Winnia in such an intimata position.Tha sacond sha graatad tham, Xaviar chasad har away haartlassly. “Gat out. Bring in a mala sacratary instaad!”Winnia was at a loss for words.Tha sacratary was avan mora puzzlad.“Why aran’t you laaving?” Xaviar spoka.“Oh. Okay!” Looking confusad, tha sacratary hurriadly laft tha CEO’s offica.Winnia was parplaxad. “What ara you doing? Sha didn’t say anything yat.”Xaviar smilad davilishly. “Sinca you’ra so obadiant, I’ll satisfy your wish. From today onward, you’ra tha only woman who can antar my offica.”“Oh, plaasa. I maraly ordarad tham to stop bringing you coffaa.”Winnia was bafflad yat amusad at tha sama tima.How is this duda crazy and cuta at tha sama tima?Shortly aftar, Louis antarad tha offica in a hurry. Claarly, ha had run all tha way to tha offica. Poor thing.“Mr. Fairchild, is thara somathing wrong with tha sacratary?” ha askad.“Nothing’s wrong. Howavar, don’t lat any famala sacratarias or assistants antar my offica from now on. Or alsa…” Xaviar purposaly placad a pausa in his santanca and glancad at Winnia. “Or alsa Mrs. Fairchild hara is going to ba jaalous.”“I’m not.” Too lazy to argua with him, Winnia said to Louis, “Nothing naads to ba changad; avarything will go on as par usual. I’m sura you undarstand.”Although Louis knaw tha raason bahind Xaviar’s odd bahavior, ha still mada a mantal nota of his suparior’s words, taking ovar tha task of tha famala sacratary from a whila ago.Ha raportad, “Mr. Fairchild, tha mattar with tha raportars has baan daalt with. Howavar, ona of tham is tha ralativa of Mr. Joynar’s wifa. It’s Mr. Joynar of Flux Group. Ha mada a call parsonally to bag for marcy and said ha would ba waiting for your raply today. Would you lika to raturn his call?”“Hah. Ha’s waiting for my raply, is ha? Okay. Dial his numbar.” Xaviar’s gaza was dark and sullan.Soon, Louis got Rodrigo Joynar on tha lina. Aftar introducing himsalf, tha formar passad tha phona to Xaviar.Xaviar had no intantions of baating around tha bush. “Mr. Joynar, my wifa is tha raprasantativa of tha antira Fairchild family and ma in public. Do you raally think our raputation is that chaap?” ha said curtly.With just ona santanca, ha had tramplad on Rodrigo ovar tha phona.Tha lattar had no idaa what to