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Chapter 457

Chapter 457 The Act of Spoon-Feeding

Sonia rolled her eyes at Charles. “Look, do whatever you want to, but you’ll have to wait a bit if you insist on having dinner here because the chowder is off-limits.”

He pouted like a child. “Fine, I guess I’ll let him have the chowder, seeing as he risked death to save you and all that.”

“That’s more like it,” she said with a grin. “Now, sit down while I whip up a couple of dishes. It’ll only take a moment.”

 

“Okay.” Charles nodded and headed for the couch.

Sonia, on the other hand, wore her apron once more and returned to the kitchen where she resumed her cooking.

True to her words, it didn’t take long for the dishes to be done. They pulled their own chairs at the dining table and got ready to dig in.

He had only just picked up his utensils when he suddenly asked, “By the way, baby, I saw the suitcase next to the coffee table. Are you going on a trip?”

“Not exactly. I’m making a trip to my grandfather’s country house,” she answered after swallowing a mouthful of food.

With a curious gaze, he probed, “Well, what are you going there for?”

 

help my grandfather look

back with you,” he offered after taking

eyed him with suspicion. “You don’t

I can be your driver. The muscles on your back have yet to heal and driving on your own would be torture; you’ll only return

She knew that there was no way she could make a three-hour drive down to the countryside and back to the city again; sitting down for hours on end would make her back shrivel up in pain. Besides, her driver had taken the next day

Sonia was left with no choice but to look for a new driver for her trip. “In that case, you can come along. We leave at 9:00AM tomorrow,”

“Great, so that’s settled. I’ll pick you

“Okay,” she replied.

Residence, she turned down

better than to try and dissuade her. However, just as she had opened her car door and was about to slide into the driver’s seat, he suddenly

the door and gave him a look of

features as he warned, “Take care that Toby doesn’t try

sputtered at this. “What’s going on in that mind of yours, Charles? I wouldn’t just let

use your gratitude as leverage and ask you for some strange favor. You and I both know you wouldn’t turn him down if that were to happen because

next second and flashed a quick smile at Charles. “He’s not like that. I know him and he’s not such a low-life that he’d resort to something like

after all, given that he had helped her out with

way he pleased and she would have been cornered. However, he never did and she was firm in her stance that it wasn’t in his nature to do something

then. I rest my case. Anyway, just keep your guard up around him and remember that I’m just one call away if you

said with a reassuring nod before waving goodbye at him as

was closed, but she picked up on muffled

knocked on the door. It opened the next moment to reveal a middle-aged woman wearing a caretaker’s uniform on the other side.

dinner,” Sonia informed, showing the woman

dawned upon the caretaker. “Oh, you must be Miss

astonished Sonia asked, “You

came in to attend to Mr. Fuller earlier, he told me that a young lady will be dropping by with his dinner and that I was to let her in without

hearing the explanation. So, he told the caretaker about me

Reed. Mr. Fuller has been waiting for you for a while now,” the caretaker ushered as

a brow. “A

to the balcony ten minutes ago to see if there was any ‘pretty young lady with a thermal flask’ approaching the ward,” the caretaker confessed with good

“Thank you

so desperate for her arrival. Then again, it

flask in hand, she walked

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