Silly Bride

Chapter 367

her diagnosis. Their preliminary belief was that her condition might be blindness caused by temporary ischemia of the central retinal artery, but they could not rule out that it could be retinopathy caused by inhalation of radioactive gas, or that the optic nerve had been damaged instead.As for more details, they would need Winnie to head to the hospital for a thorough checkup. At the same time, they needed a specialist on her case.However, Winnie was currently under quarantine, and they had to wait until everyone was there for the specialist’s diagnosis.Hence, Winnie postponed her schedule by a day.Xavier wanted to make arrangements for everything immediately, for he was terrified that she would miss the golden hour.However, Winnie understood the condition mutation theories that the doctors had told her earlier, so she knew that nothing would worsen overnight. In fact, it was likely that her loss of vision was connected to her mental state.Winnie somewhat knew what was going on. Even though she appeared composed, she was feeling terrible inwardly.What she needed most at that moment was rest.She needed to give her body time to recover, and she needed to mentally prepare herself.At her insistence, the doctors left.The second the door closed, she frowned.Thinking that she was feeling unwell, Xavier quickly asked her what was wrong.Her frown deepened. “I remember hearing five people coming in, but why did only four leave?”“Oh, my god.” The eyes of Josiah, who was standing at the end of the bed the entire time, reddened when he heard her say that. “Are you a god or a monster? How did you even hear how many people came in?” Winnie followed the source of Josiah’s voice and turned toward him. “Oh, it’s you, Dr. Houghton. Why did you only come now? Are you really my friend?”“Hey, hey, hey. Why don’t you ask your husband who was the one who delivered food to him when he was outside? It was me! I only got to rest when the sun went down, all right? How mean of you.”Winnie chuckled. “I was just joking. You didn’t need to take me seriously.”Josiah could only stare at Winnie’s face for a while in silence.Suddenly, he walked over to switch off all the lights in the room.Even though Winnie could not see anything, she could hear that Josiah had done something.Xavier knitted his brows in silence and tightened his grip on Winnie’s hand.If she’s blind, then I’m going to find out what the