Silly Bride

Chapter 287

on the other side of the door.Winnie opened the door to let her brother in, but she didn’t have time to speak to him and quickly went to turn on her phone.As she was in a hurry, Winnie’s movements were clumsy, causing her to accidentally knock over a drinking glass that was on the table.She instinctively went to pick up the broken pieces, but Wilhelm stopped her from doing so.“It’s okay. I’ll take care of this. Why don’t you go ahead and continue what you were doing?”Wilhelm could tell Winnie was anxious, so he stepped up to help her without hesitation.Winnie immediately allowed her brother to help, and upon seeing Wilhelm needing some space to clean the mess up, she retreated to the bed.That was when the incident began.Transparent glass shards were hard to spot with the naked eye, especially when they were on white-colored bedsheets. Hence, when Winnie sat down, she unknowingly pressed her hand against a piece of glass shard.Her hand was instantly cut, and before long, the white bedsheets were stained scarlet by her blood.Seeing this, Wilhelm instantly asked her to go to the bathroom and run some water over her wound while he called the front desk for a first-aid kit.After he hung up the call, Wilhelm’s gaze subconsciously fell on Winnie’s phone screen which indicated she was planning on calling Xavier.Wilhelm took the liberty to make the call in her stead and had the opportunity to speak to Xavier.Once he had said what was necessary, he turned Winnie’s phone off.Thus, when Winnie stepped out of the bathroom, the first thing she saw was Wilhelm holding her phone.“Wilhelm…” Winnie eyed her brother, frowning slightly. “Why are you holding my phone? Were you on a call?”I thought I heard Wilhelm talking earlier, but the sound of running water had drowned out his voice, so I wasn’t able to hear what he said.Wilhelm gently placed her phone back on the table and addressed her queries with a half-truth. “Yeah, I called the front desk for a first-aid kit. The wound on your hand needs to be taken care of.”As if to prove Wilhelm wasn’t lying, the motel staff arrived with the first-aid kit as soon as Wilhelm was done speaking.He took over the first-aid kit and began taking care of Winnie’s wound, starting with disinfecting it.While he was disinfecting the wound, Wilhelm glanced at his sister. “Does it hurt?”Winnie was busy fiddling with her phone at that moment. “I remember turning on my phone. Why did it turn off again? Wilhelm, you haven’t answered me. Why did you take my phone earlier?”After tossing the cotton bud away, Wilhelm responded without lifting his head, “I made a call with your phone.”“You used my phone? Who did you call?” Winnie was slightly taken aback.Wilhelm didn’t answer her questions right away, but he wasn’t planning on hiding the truth from her either.“Xavier,” he answered.“What?” Winnie was utterly dumbfounded. “You two don’t know each other. Wilhelm, how could you do something like this?”She didn’t need to ask to roughly guess what her brother had said to Xavier.Winnie felt rather irate and pulled her wounded hand away from Wilhelm before turning on her phone once more. After that, she quickly gave Xavier a call.The call got through almost instantly, but Xavier’s tone was less than kind. “Who are you? What the f*ck do you want? Where’s Winnie? Is she all right?” he thundered.“Xavier…” Upon hearing the familiar voice, Winnie instinctively breathed a sigh of relief. “It’s me. I’m fine. I was in the bathroom earlier, and the person who spoke to you on the phone is my brother. I don’t know what he said to you, but no matter what he said, his words do not reflect mine,” she stressed.After a brief pause, Winnie continued to assure the man on the other end of the line, “You have to understand something. No matter what it’s about, unless I tell you myself, you shouldn’t believe anything that others have said or written! Engagement, arranged marriage, and all that are nothing but baseless rumors. I just got to the foot of the mountain and found out about the news regarding my engagement with Nathaniel. That is all fake.”“I knew it…” Upon hearing her explanation, Xavier couldn’t help curling his lips into a smile, and his tone also became much gentler. “I knew it was all complete nonsense. I won’t believe it unless you tell me about it yourself.”“That’s good, then.” Similarly, Winnie also broke into a smile as she threatened with her usual sweet and gentle tone, “You’re dead if