Chapter 458 Toby’s Plan

After having fed Toby a mouthful of chowder, Sonia placed the spoon aside and asked expectantly, “What do you think?”

“It’s delicious,” he said after he swallowed the chowder to give her a reassuring nod.

She broke into a smile. “Good. I’m glad.” Glad that all the stock-brewing, the dicing, the simmering and the stirring are all worth this moment of praise, she thought. Then, she brought another spoonful of chowder to his lips and prompted, “Here, have some more.”

And just like that, the both of them fell into a rhythm and before they knew it, the bowl was practically polished clean.

Sonia rose from her seat and asked, “Would you like another bowl?”

Toby shook his head. “No, thanks. I’m full.”

“Already?” She glanced at the empty bowl in her hand and frowned slightly. “You barely ate, though!” More importantly, the bowl she used was a small one and there couldn’t have been much chowder in it to fill him up so quickly, not while he was a man with a six-foot-three build.

“I’m actually full,” he insisted calmly as he took the mouthwash the caretaker had given him. “They gave me another bottle of IV after you left in the afternoon. Apparently, the fluid contains some substance that makes one feel a little bloated.”

“Oh, okay.” Sonia nodded at this new information. “Well then, I won’t try to force-feed you. I’ll keep the rest of the chowder in the fridge, so maybe you can get the caretaker to heat it up for you for breakfast tomorrow.”

“Alright,” Toby replied.

She brought the flask into the kitchenette of the suite and returned to the room after she had kept everything in place.

Upon seeing that he was the only one in the room, she glanced around and asked, “Where’s the caretaker?”

“I let her off her shift,” he explained with a book in his good hand.

As she walked over to his bed, she pressed, “What are you going to do at night if you let her off early like this?”

“My legs are completely fine and I’m perfectly capable of being on my own for the night,” he said matter-of-factly as he looked up at her.

Now that she saw his point, Sonia nodded. After dusting off her hands, she began to make her way to where she had left her purse.

this, Toby’s gaze darkened. “Are

it’s already 9:00PM,” she pointed out as

asked,

She cast him a bewildered

could talk for a bit. A friendly chat.” He steadily met her

and after a moment of hesitation, she relented. Nodding in agreement, she said, “Very well,

smile pulled on

more next to the bed. He had asked that she stay for a chat, but in all

time, he spared not one second on pleasantries as he divulged business management tips to her and taught her the best way to navigate the tough commercial world. He even touched on the ideal direction that Paradigm Co. should take in terms of corporate growth and the various industries that the company

these things over the course of a hopefully developing friendship, but following the drastic shortening of his lifespan, he now only had

point, Toby no longer had enough time to be her mentor and guide her through life in the industry. He

was marked with scheme. She was still green, so there

terrifying the industry was. He would have shielded her from all of it and kept her

for hope. He was destined to wither away and leave her unprotected,

shake the feeling that he was urgently trying

brushed off such thoughts and paid

the business industry, the very same ones that helped him to thrive and survive. Experiences like his were hard to come by, much less be narrated in person, and she didn’t

ticked by, and soon, it was

at 10.00PM and

at her and called

was sleeping soundly,

so peaceful when she slept that he couldn’t bring himself to stir her awake. Glancing around the room, he saw the jacket she had hung up on the rack next to the bed. He lifted the covers off and reached to

of his arms was busted, he would have carried her into the adjoining room meant for caretakers who stayed over the night and let

cast on his

jacket wouldn’t fall off her shoulders, Toby reached out to

to the hospital room opened. Tom came bustling in with documents

shut. He had no idea what he did wrong at first, but thankfully, he snapped out of his confusion in time to notice Sonia’s sleeping frame as she slouched over the bed. At that moment, he finally

turned out, his loud greeting had almost

whispered apologetically as he tread lightly over to the bed. “I didn’t know Miss Reed

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