Silly Bride

Chapter 210

I wasn’t being delusional.”Winnie let out a chuckle. “Haha! Who’s the dumbo now? Xavier, I want you to trust me unconditionally, okay?”“Okay, I will. Do you trust me as well?” Xavier asked with a firm look in his eyes.Winnie nodded. “Of course.”Those words had barely left her mouth when Josiah’s call came in.She quickly pulled her hand out of Xavier’s grip and answered the phone.“Josiah? Are you at Aqua Moana? Why weren’t you picking up my calls?”Noticing the anxiety in her voice, Josiah quickly explained, “It wasn’t convenient for me to answer the phone earlier, but it’s okay now. I called you back as soon as I could. Did something happen?”“You could say that. I tried calling my granny, but I couldn’t get through. I was wondering if you could head over to my place and help check on her,” Winnie replied.Josiah’s response, however, shocked her deeply.“It makes perfect sense that you weren’t able to get through to her. I was going to give you a call even if you didn’t call me.”Winnie frowned in confusion. “What do you mean by that?”Instead of answering her question, Josiah asked, “Is Xavier with you right now?”“Yes, he is. What’s wrong?”“Oh, there’s just something I need to talk to him about. Mind putting your phone on speaker for me? It’ll save me the trouble of having to call him,” Josiah replied after giving it some thought.“Okay.” Winnie then put her phone on speaker as she continued, “What did you mean by that question earlier?”“I got held up with something, so it was pretty late when I went home. I happened to bump into Mdm. Sumner on the way back. She was on the phone and so distracted that she nearly bumped into pedestrians a couple of times. I grew worried about her safety when I saw how anxious she looked, so I followed her using my car. That was when I saw her make her way into a bank to use the ATM. There’s nothing strange about a person withdrawing money, but she was on the phone the whole time. I was worried that she might’ve been conned into transferring her money to some stranger, so I decided to go talk to her. However, she was already leaving the bank when I parked my car by the roadside. Judging by the bulge on her handbag, I’d say she must’ve withdrawn a huge amount of cash using multiple cards. As you know, there’s a limit to how much one can withdraw from an ATM. Don’t you find that strange?”Winnie frowned slightly. “It’s strange indeed. What happened after that? Did you follow her? Was there anyone else around her? Was she being forced or threatened?”“It didn’t seem like she was forced. I wanted to follow her, but I got stopped by a police officer for a parking violation. I assume your granny is home by now, but I’m still stuck here at the moment. Maybe you should go home and check on her,” Josiah replied.“All right, thanks!” Winnie said and hung up the phone.Since the time for the acupuncture treatment was up, she removed the needles on Xavier’s head as well.While packing the needles, she recalled something and exclaimed, “Oh, shoot! Josiah said he wanted to talk to you about something, but I hung up the phone before he could talk to you!”“It’s fine. I bet he’s so busy dealing with the traffic police that it slipped his mind. That means it probably wasn’t something important, so he can tell me about it later,” Xavier reassured her.He actually knew that Josiah wanted to tell him about Jacinta.In this modern age, most people would just transfer money via internet banking, so there’s no reason for anyone to carry so much cash on them. Unless, of course, they don’t want that transaction to be traceable online. I’m guessing Mdm. Sumner either plans to make an escape or is trying to help someone else escape. Considering how she was speaking to someone on the phone for so long, I’d say the latter is a lot more likely. Of course, this is all just my hypothesis. I’ll have to confirm it myself before I tell Dumbo there’s something suspicious about her granny. “Come on, let’s head back to Aqua Moana,” Xavier said as he got off the bed and fetched Winnie her handbag from the couch.“Right!” Winnie began calling Jacinta as they walked out of there.This time, Jacinta answered the phone fairly quickly.“What is it, Winnie? Why are you calling me all of a sudden? Shouldn’t you be resting instead?”Winnie breathed a sigh of relief when she heard how normal Jacinta sounded, but she was still a bit concerned after hearing what Josiah said earlier.“Oh, I’m not tired. By the way, Granny, who were you talking to on the phone? I tried calling you earlier, but I couldn’t get through. That was ten to twenty minutes ago.”“Ah, you were calling me? I didn’t know because I was on the phone with Rach. She says she’ll be going home soon and asks if I could take her out for one last nice meal. I guess I got a little carried away while chatting with her.”“Oh, I see. When will she be leaving? Maybe I could go say goodbye.”“Are