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On the other side of the phone, Josiah immediately texted Xavier after receiving his
message.
Josiah: What’s going on? Louis told me you’re safe from harm now, so how is it
inconvenient for you to pick up my call?
Xavier stole a glance at the woman sleeping peacefully in his arms and kissed her on her
forehead, not resisting his urges.
He texted again after that: You probably shouldn’t be asking because a man who is still
single won’t understand.
Josiah replied: What the hell! What are you trying to tell me? You can’t possibly have found
that little Dumbo of yours on that island, can you? I thought you told Louis something’s
suspicious about Calvert! The news he gave you is real, after all?
Xavier: It’s complicated. I’ll talk to you about this in detail once I’m back. Also, do me a
favor. Perform an investigation on that Paulina. The fake Paulina.
Josiah: But we’ve already tried to find out more about her, did we not? We couldn’t get
anything because she was too mysterious. By the way, she went after you that night in
the hospital because she felt something was off after you left. Did you see her? Did she
come looking for you?
Xavier stole another glance at the woman sleeping beside him.
In his text to Josiah, Xavier typed and deleted his text several times before he finally
texted: Yes, I did see her.
Josiah: Oh. So she’s fine?
Recalling the bruises on Winnie’s shoulder, Xavier frowned and replied: She was a little
bruised, but it’s all right.
Speaking of which, he remembered being thrown into the ocean with heavy metal weights
tied to him. This woman called Paulina risked her life saving him and even performed
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtmouth-to-mouth resuscitation on him.
Hence, he texted: She saved me.
Josiah: Not bad. You’re lucky enough because you took her things. She said that thing is
her family heirloom, and she wouldn’t go all the way there to save you if it weren’t
because of that.
Is that so? Xavier frowned, for he did not remember taking something that belonged to
her.
Did she really come to my rescue just because of something I had never seen?
He was unconvinced.
Paulina and Dumbo might be the same people.
With that slightly odd-looking face of Paulina, the silica gel on Dumbo’s neck, how their
timeline coincidentally merged, and how Dumbo could express what she wanted to say
despite looking dumb and naive, the clues were pointing toward the same truth, where
Paulina and Dumbo were the same people.
But why is she pretending to be dumb? Why is she disguising herself as Paulina to get
close to me? And what’s all this with the family heirloom? What was she looking for in my
house?
There were so many questions unanswered that Xavier was eager to bite the woman
awake to answer his questions.
However, he was afraid because he saw the decisiveness Paulina displayed.
When Winnie went missing, Paulina appeared, which meant that the woman knew he had
never stopped looking for Winnie.
She watched him suffer all the while but never decided to show up.
When he threatened Paulina to rescue Yulissa with him, he lied to her about planting a
bomb on her bulletproof vest.
Yet, Paulina decisively left him when someone threw a smoke bomb.
When Winnie was Dumbo, she was naive and pure. However, when she was not, she was
firm and decisive.
However, at that time, he had no idea that Paulina was his Dumbo.
If he had known it sooner, there was no way he would threaten and scare her with the
bomb.
Now, no matter what, he would not dare to cross Paulina’s—or Winnie’s, for that matter—
bottom line, for he knew once he did that, she would leave unhesitatingly.
As for Xavier, he no longer wanted to experience the torment of losing her again.
He told himself long ago that he would still want her, even if she stayed a fool for the rest
of her life.
If she was not, he would want her even more.
“Winnie.” With a frown, Xavier hovered his finger on Winnie’s face and traced the outline
of her facial features. “You’ll tell me the truth someday, right?”
Life on the island was relaxing and peaceful. Ever since she returned to Chanaea, it was
the first time Winnie could bathe herself under the warm sunlight on the beach.
Sitting somewhere close to her was Xavier, barbequing some food.
It all happened because the woman said she was craving chicken in a spoiled manner. As
a result, Xavier had the driver and bodyguards set up a barbeque pit.
Winnie did not bother about helping. All she did was build sand castles and swipe her
phone.
A moment ago, she finally managed to get in touch with Christopher, but he quickly left
the conversation to deal with his affairs, leaving her questions unanswered.
For this reason, Winnie was a little upset. As she still had her phone in her hand, she had
nothing else to do. Upon seeing Xavier being busy in front of the barbeque pit, she
switched on the camera feature and took a few photos of Xavier without a thought.
She wondered how the social media would react if she posted the photos of the CEO of
Fairchild Corporation making barbequed chicken for her with his sleeves rolled up while
sitting in a wheelchair.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmHehe, this angle in this photo is pretty good. I can see all the muscles on his arms. This
photo is also good. His shirt is a little wet, so it’s sticking to his body that I can almost see
his abs. This one is amazing! The lighting is so great that it further amplified his pretty
facial features! Every shot is taken randomly, but they’re so good as if they’re edited!
The bored Winnie started scrolling through the photos of Xavier that she just took.
Just as she was commenting on them inwardly, a shadow suddenly towered over her.
What she heard next was Xavier’s voice.
He sounded as if he was in a good mood. “You’re taking photos of me?”
Winnie almost failed to resist the urge to put her phone away, feeling as though she had
been caught red-handed. Yet, she soon convinced herself.
So what if I did? There’s nothing to feel guilty about.
Hence, she shoved her phone toward Xavier’s face and uttered, “Handsome, look! You’re
so handsome in the photos! You’re the most handsome man I’ve ever seen!”
Happy with what he heard, the man reached a hand out and gently stroked her head.
“How many times do I have to tell you I’m your hubby, not Handsome?”
Pretending as if she heard nothing, Winnie reached her hand toward the plate in Xavier’s
hand.
“Oh! The chicken wings are ready! I want to have some!”
“Why are you in such a hurry? At least wait for me to sit down first.” Xavier hurled his
cane to the side and prepared to sit beside Winnie.
Seeing his broken leg, Winnie helped him to sit down. “Be careful of your leg, Handsome!”
Xavier was delighted that she decided to help. Even though she refused to address him as
her husband, she still cared about him.
He gave the plate to Winnie, and after a thought, he reached his hand toward her. “Give
me your phone.”
At his words, Winnie froze as she stared at him with widened eyes. “Why do you want my
phone, Handsome?”
He can’t possibly notice I’m talking to Christopher, right?
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