Silly Bride

Chapter 247

her cheek.It was just a light peck, but he deliberately paused for quite some time.It went without question that he only did it to make his mark, and it was quite a childish attempt.Winnie was amused by his action. Nevertheless, she felt the need to reassure him as she had already regarded him as her soulmate. She lifted her head and kissed him on the lips.“That’s how you do it, silly.”Xavier was stunned. Did she just call me silly in front of another man? But who cares, right? She kissed me in front of Christopher!Xavier suppressed the urge to reciprocate her fervent kiss right then and there. When he looked at Christopher, he could not help but smile smugly as he asked, “Do you have anything else you’d like to confirm?”Christopher remained impassive and gave Xavier a smile. “No. It’s getting late now. I think the driver’s about to be back soon. I hope all of us can go back to our respective positions.”After about an hour, Winnie and Christopher left the place.Winnie decided to go through with her acting and be a more difficult person.She purposely asked the driver to chauffeur her somewhere quite far for dinner.Reluctant to do so, the driver turned to look at Christopher.To his dismay, Christopher merely said, “Do as she says.”When they were on the way to the restaurant, Christopher suddenly received a call.Upon hanging up the call, he immediately ordered the driver, “Make a U-turn and head back home right now.”Winnie knew that the phone call had something to do with Christopher’s sudden decision to return to the Horton residence.She immediately turned around and questioned him in an unpleasant tone, “What does this mean? You’ve agreed to take me to that restaurant. Why are you turning back right now? Are you taking me for a fool? Do I have to ask Mr. Horton himself to give you orders to make you listen?”Christopher shot her a look and said icily, “We are to head back home on Mr. Horton’s order. You’re right, Ms. Vivian. We only listen to Mr. Horton.”Winnie snickered. “He’s not even giving me time to have dinner now, huh? Why? Is it really that urgent?”Christopher furrowed his brows and shook his head slightly as he looked at Winnie. Then he said indifferently, “Ms. Vivian, I’m afraid that is not a question you should be asking. We have the best cook in all of Lightspring back home. Mr. Horton will surely treat you to the best food then. Now stop with the nonsense.”After that, he urged the driver again, “Hurry up. We don’t have all the time in the world!”“Right! We’re in a hurry to meet our doom!” Winnie rolled her eyes and leaned back against her seat in a huff.The driver was infuriated by her rude remarks and wished he could make her swallow her words.He shot Winnie a glare through the rearview mirror.Noticing that the woman had shut her mouth and eyes, he cursed silently to himself.Meanwhile, Winnie and Christopher were already communicating with each other using Morse code.Christopher tapped Winnie’s arm lightly: I don’t know what happened. We’ll have to see how it goes. Winnie frowned and replied: I know. You be careful.Her right eyelid started to twitch right then, prompting her to tap Christopher twice on the back of his hand.However, she immediately retracted her hand without conveying anything clearly.Confounded, Christopher asked: What’s wrong?Instead of answering his question, Winnie replied: You have to be extra careful.She did not tell Christopher that she had a hunch that something was going to happen that night.However, it was only her intuition, and she did not wish to unnerve Christopher with that.Before closing her eyes, she added: I’m going to get some rest first.After about an hour, the two of them arrived at the Horton residence.Even though Winnie had not stayed at the Horton residence for long and was not too familiar with the place, she could sense that something was amiss that night.The security was unusually tight, and there were even a few unknown faces present.Winnie immediately pulled Christopher aside and asked in a low voice, “Is someone here? I saw a few unfamiliar faces out in the front. They’re not very friendly toward the security guards. It’s obvious that they’re not from the same family.”“They are indeed new faces.” Christopher frowned. “I’ve never seen them before as well.”Winnie narrowed her eyes. “Did Harold ask me to come back because we didn’t reach an agreement from the discussion today? Is he trying to