Silly Bride

Chapter 209

after you? He even broke his leg!” Evidently, Yolanda didn’t believe her. “Are you insane? I don’t know why you’re stopping me from leaving, but I’d advise you to quit while you’re ahead if you’re joking about such a thing just to keep me here. No matter what, my grandfather was once your master.”“Follow me to the orthopedic department if you don’t believe me and see whether your grandfather is having his leg placed in a cast!”Winnie couldn’t be bothered to yak with her anymore. If her grandfather weren’t my master, I wouldn’t even care about her!Even now, she was still being patient.Dragging Yolanda along, she stalked toward the elevator. But the woman kept refusing to cooperate, struggling and even leaving scratch marks on her arm with her fingernails.At long last, Winnie snapped. Locking Yolanda’s arms behind her back, she kicked her all the way to the elevator.That caused quite a scene. Seeing that, the few patients’ family members in the elevator exited it early although they obviously hadn’t arrived at their desired floors, afraid that they would be caught in the crossfire.“Let go of me, Winnie! You’ll regret this!”“You’re the one who’ll be regretting it if you don’t go and see your grandfather today!”After saying that, Winnie flung Yolanda to a corner of the elevator.Then, she flipped through her phone for the video of Sebastian in a wheelchair and showed it to her.As Yolanda stared at the phone screen, she finally started panicking. “My grandfather is really in the hospital? Is he okay?”“Are you asking me this? You’re his family, so you should be asking the doctor that question.”While they were talking, they had already arrived at the third floor. Winnie lifted her hand and snagged her phone back from Yolanda before motioning for the latter to go out with her eyes.At once, Yolanda headed for the orthopedic department. Winnie, on the other hand, sat on the chair in the hospital corridor.She only got to her feet when she saw Yolanda wheeling Sebastian, who already had a cast on his leg, out.When Sebastian caught sight of Winnie’s back from a near distance away, he said to Yolanda beside him, “Fortunately, Nini drove me to the hospital this time. It was also thanks to her that I found you. Go over and thank her.”Yolanda had her arms twisted behind her back and had been kicked all the way over earlier, so she was still aching then.Frowning deeply, she huffed with a chilly expression, “No way!”“Why not? I owe her a debt of gratitude. I’m old and feeble, so you should repay that debt of gratitude on my behalf!”Yolanda pursed her lips, stubbornly refusing to speak.But still, she committed that debt of gratitude to memory.Winnie waited for Xavier at the parking lot. The two of them went for lunch together before returning to Fairchild Corporation.Since Winnie carried an acupuncture kit with her everywhere she went, she performed acupuncture on Xavier in his lounge.After inserting the needles, she started calling Jacinta, but the latter’s phone remained engaged.It persisted for a whole ten minutes, and that had her finding it rather abnormal.A touch worried, she began pacing in the lounge.Her unusual behavior snagged Xavier’s attention.Opening his eyes, he queried in concern, “What’s wrong? Did something happen?”A frown marred Winnie’s countenance. “I can’t get through to Granny. Her line keeps indicating that it’s busy. Such a situation rarely occurred in the past. I’m worried that she might have run into trouble or something might have happened to her.”Xavier opened his mouth, but he ultimately swallowed the words that had already reached the tip of his tongue.In truth, he didn’t think that something had happened to Jacinta. Instead, he felt that she was exceedingly suspicious. But to that very moment, he still hadn’t had the time to send someone to keep an eye on her.After pondering for a bit, he suggested, “How about I have someone go and look in on her at the condominium?”“Sure!” No sooner had Winnie nodded than something abruptly occurred to her. She instantly changed her tune. “Never mind, forget it.”“What’s wrong? Are you not worried anymore?”“No, I suddenly remembered that Josiah has the day off in the afternoon. He should be at Aqua Moana now, so I’ll ask him to look in on her. I’ll phone him right away.”However, Josiah didn’t answer the phone for a long time.Winnie called him several times, but there was no response.This isn’t his style at all. Probably because of his professional ethics, he generally keeps his phone turned on twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. That aside, he always answers within three rings. But this time, something out of