Chapter 620 Helping in the Kitchen

Sonia nodded. “I’ll just make some home cooked dishes then.”

“Alright. I’ll help you.” Toby stood up.

As she stared suspiciously at him, she clarified, “You want to help me?”

“Do you have a problem with that?” he countered.

“You’ve never been in the kitchen,” Sonia pointed out while feeling the bowl in her hands. “Are you sure you’d be able to help?”

It wasn’t that she looked down on him.

It was because he had led a comfortable life since birth and never had to engage in menial labor of any sort.

His hands had all along been made for fountain pens, not kitchen knives.

That was the reason why she truly didn’t believe he could help.

Moreover, even Sonia had never done any housework when she was a young child. The only reason why she knew how to cook was because Jean had forced her to learn that skill during the six year marriage to Toby.

Before she married, she hadn’t known how to cook either.

As Toby heard the skepticism in Sonia’s tone, he stiffened. “I can help.”

As a man, he absolutely couldn’t admit to not being able to do something.

Besides, while in Kosovo, he had learned how to make the hangover soup through the internet. That in itself could be counted as learning to cook.

Thus, he shouldn’t have a problem helping out now… Right?

At any rate, that was what Toby thought.

Seeing how earnest he seemed, Sonia didn’t second-guess him any longer.

After all, for him to boldly say such a thing meant he had to have some ability.

Not to mention, considering how much he knew and how well he did in other things, it ought to be no problem for him to help in the kitchen.

With that in mind, Sonia pointed in the direction of the kitchen and said, “Since you want to help, come along then.”

After saying that, she headed toward the kitchen.

eager Toby

pulled the ingredients for the

placed the squash onto the sink and thereafter, she left a bundle of sweet potato leaves on a plate

blankly stared at it.

the plate. “Once you

stared at the bundle of sweet potato leaves

he supposed

Weren’t they already plucked?

was he supposed to pluck

with his glassy eyes, not knowing what

that he wasn’t moving, a suspicious

I’ll go and pluck them outside,” Toby answered with

admit to not

his ability to help moments ago and here he was, stymied by the first task that she gave him.

kitchen and secretly searched the internet for how to prepare

was lucky in the sense that Sonia didn’t suspect him of searching for an excuse to leave the kitchen because he didn’t want her to

considered that the kitchen was quite small and indeed quite crowded with both of them inside. Hence, she

before leaving with

phone from the pocket of his pajama pants. After unlocking the phone, he took a picture of the leafy green on the plate and used the

he needed about this vegetable leaped

reading through the introduction, Toby finally

his phone aside as he grinned and began to pinch

glanced down at his handiwork and

up, Toby carried the plate

and attractive; in a few short seconds, she had

and turned to see him entering with the plate. With a

He nodded and grunted.

You were faster than I

asked in an almost imperceptibly nervous

he had done quite well,

his nervousness

also hoped that Sonia would be impressed with his work as she might praise him as

me see.” As she took the plate from him, she sifted through the leaves with her free

was looking at him

virtually no old stems and each leaf was quite evenly

put some heart into the

he was relieved to receive Sonia’s approval, he smiled even more broadly and looked subtly proud.

hesitating to accept the compliment, I

Toby continued, “Is there anything else you need

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