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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?”

 

grandfather

back with you,” he offered after

with suspicion. “You don’t have

to heal and driving on your own would be torture; you’ll only return feeling worse. I’m offering

to make a sharp ache flare up on her back. 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

at this stage, Sonia was left with no choice but to look for a new driver for her trip. “In that case, you can come

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

“Okay,” she replied.

them left Sonia’s apartment. After having exited the gated area of Bayside Residence, she turned down his offer

stubborn she was, he knew better than to try and dissuade her. However, just as she had

held the edge of the door and gave him a

features as he warned, “Take care that

mind of yours, Charles? I wouldn’t just let him have his way with

You have to watch your back. Toby still hasn’t given up on you and now that he’s saved you from death, I wouldn’t put it past him to use your gratitude as leverage and ask you for some strange favor. You and I both know you wouldn’t turn him down

regained her composure in the 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

wouldn’t be the first time she owed Toby a favor, after all, given that he had

have used those as valid reasons to force her into returning his favor in whatever way he pleased and she would have been cornered. However,

my case. Anyway, just keep your guard up around him and remember that I’m just

she said with a reassuring nod before waving goodbye at him as she ducked

arrived outside Toby’s room. The door was closed, but she picked up on muffled speaking voices coming from the other

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

dinner,” Sonia informed, showing the woman the thermal

the caretaker.

Sonia asked,

smiled and nodded in earnest. “Yes. When I came in to attend to Mr. Fuller earlier, he told me that a young

see,” Sonia responded after hearing the explanation. So, he

for a while now,” the caretaker

raised a brow.

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

“Thank you for taking

ravenous if he had been so desperate for her

thermal flask in hand, she walked

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