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.

the sight of this, Toby’s gaze darkened.

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

and asked, “Would you mind staying here for

She cast him a

talk for a bit. A friendly chat.”

Nodding in agreement, she said, “Very well, but I must leave at 10:00PM. I need to

smile pulled on

purse down and took her seat once more next to the bed. He had asked that she stay

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

had wanted to coach her on these things over the course of a hopefully developing friendship, but following the drastic shortening of his lifespan, he now only had three good years, during which his body would slowly wear out just to keep

through life in the industry. He had to teach her everything he knew before his body started to

as every one of its nooks and crevices was marked with scheme. She was still green, so there

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

was destined to wither away and leave her unprotected, but he would do whatever he could to make her stronger. Going forward, she

the feeling that he was urgently trying to make her absorb

brushed off such thoughts and paid attention, clinging

his career in 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

by, and soon,

forgotten that she was supposed to return home at 10.00PM and as it is,

her and called

but he could tell she was sleeping soundly, for she

room, he saw the jacket she had hung up

for the fact that one of his arms was busted, he would have carried her into the adjoining room

his eyes fell on the cast on his arm and a

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

when the door to the hospital room opened. Tom came bustling in

thankfully, he snapped out of his confusion in time to notice Sonia’s

loud greeting had almost woken

over to the bed. “I didn’t

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