Silly Bride

Chapter 258

his safety.”Winnie glanced at him silently before responding, “Sorry, but I don’t know where Professor White is either. I’m not actually well-acquainted with him. I blew up Harold’s lab because he didn’t want to give me the proceeds I asked for. But according to what I heard from Professor White himself, he’d been wanting to get out of there since ages ago, so he escaped during the explosion. If you’re looking for him, I’m afraid I won’t be of much help.”If all is well, Professor White should be with Xavier right now.Winnie breathed an internal sigh of relief upon learning that the two were safe, but she certainly wasn’t going to tell Leandro where they were.“I see.” The man looked disappointed but quickly changed the subject. “How much would you ask for if we were to work together then, Ms. Vivian?”“Half the proceeds,” the woman answered candidly. “I won’t accept anything less than that.”“Haha!” Leandro chuckled. “I can tell, judging from how you burned down Harold’s factory just because he couldn’t agree. I’m overjoyed to know that!”Winnie didn’t know how to react to the man’s glee and merely shot him another glance.Noticing her cold gaze, Leandro quickly hid his smile.“But don’t worry, Ms. Vivian. I’m not as greedy as someone like Harold who expects seventy percent of the proceeds, so fifty-fifty is fine by me. If you work with me, I’ll provide you with whatever you need so long as I have it!”Feeling Christopher’s pulse grow weaker, Winnie didn’t have the energy to pay attention to Leandro.“Sure,” she replied half-heartedly. “Let’s talk about it when he wakes up.”Leandro shot both her and Christopher a glance. “It looks like you really love each other, huh? I’m so envious of you kids. Your love comes so quickly and with so much passion. You haven’t even known each other that long, from what I heard.”Winnie frowned and kept quiet, choosing not to respond anymore.With that, the rest of the journey continued in silence, and they finally arrived at a hospital about ten minutes later.Winnie had fractured her right arm, so a doctor from the orthopedic department immediately gave her an X-ray and cast thanks to Leandro’s connections with the hospital. Christopher had long been wheeled into the operating room for an emergency operation by the time Winnie was done being tended to.As she waited outside the operating room, Leandro’s men watched over her from a distance, making it difficult for her to go somewhere to make a phone call.The two men refused to budge even when she tried telling them that she wanted to use the restroom.The way they never even responded to the woman was as though they couldn’t understand a word she said, no matter how aggressive she became, and that riled her up.She wouldn’t have wasted her time on them if it were before, but Christopher’s life was on the line now, and she couldn’t stop feeling anxious.Just as she got up and was about to pace back and forth to calm her nerves, Leandro suddenly appeared.In his hand was a plastic bag containing a few bottles of drinks. He took one of the bottles out and handed it to Winnie after twisting the cap open for her.Yet, her brows creased in response. She hadn’t let her guard down just because this man had saved her.Hence, she turned down his gesture. “I’m not thirsty.”Understanding her reaction, Leandro drank half the bottle right away. “I guess you don’t trust me, but there’s nothing wrong with the drink.”The woman took a deep breath. “I’m really not thirsty.”“Then I’m sorry for misjudging you,” he replied before taking a seat next to her. Then, he asked in a seemingly innocent way, “What happened, by the way? Were you arguing with my men? Let me know if they did anything wrong. I’ll punish them on your behalf.”“Then please do, Boss.” With a frown, Winnie pointed toward the cast on her right arm. “What can I even do when I’m in this state? It’s not like I can blow up the hospital with just my left hand, but they won’t even let me use the restroom.”“Oh! So that’s what it is. It’s their fault then. But think about it this way: they’re just concerned about your safety. I can accompany you if you want to use the restroom, but I’ll have to get them to clear the area before we head there.”Winnie was flabbergasted. What? They’re going to clear the whole restroom area before I can go there? But I was thinking of borrowing someone’s phone to make a call! How the hell will I be able to do that now?“Forget it,” Winnie spat. “I’m so annoyed that I don’t even want to pee anymore.”Leandro laughed heartily before taking a phone out of his pocket.“Is this yours?” he asked, handing it to her.Winnie furrowed her brows. “What do you mean?” Has he seen through me? Is he testing me by giving me this phone?“One of my men found it in the basement,” Leandro explained, looking slightly puzzled. “Does it not belong to you?”The basement? It has to be Yulissa’s then. She used this phone to capture the videos!“Yes, it’s mine.” The woman took the device without a second thought.Her thumb brushed the fingerprint scanner as she grabbed it, but the phone didn’t unlock.Leandro noticed that but wasn’t sure what was going on.“Aren’t you going to unlock it to make sure everything’s still intact? I’ll buy you a new phone if this one’s broken.”Winnie shoved the phone into her pocket right away.“There’s nothing to inspect, nor am I in the mood to play with my phone now. By the way, what did you do with that body in the basement?”“What?” Leandro frowned in astonishment. “Body? What body?”Winnie became more confused as she saw how clueless the man looked.“There was a woman’s body right next to me. Didn’t you see it?”“Not at all.” Leandro summoned two subordinates immediately and spoke to them in front of her.She couldn’t fully understand what they were saying, but it most likely had to be about Leandro asking them about a female corpse.It didn’t take him long to receive an answer, and he shook his head at Winnie.“My men can confirm that there was no one else inside the basement apart from you and Chris. There was no corpse either, but it’s true there was blood on the floor. I saw that too. It was probably Chris’, though.”“That’s impossible!” How could it have just been Christopher and me?“Could you have recalled wrongly?” Leandro surmised. “You were in bad shape when we found you, so what if you were just seeing things?”“There’s no way I was hallucinating,” Winnie insisted