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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 for his

Then, maybe I should go back with you,” he offered after taking a spoonful of

eyed him with suspicion. “You don’t

and driving on your own would be torture; you’ll only return feeling worse. I’m offering my companionship as a matter of precaution and it’d also ease

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

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 up tomorrow

“Okay,” she replied.

area of Bayside Residence, she turned down his offer to drop her off at the

dissuade her. However, just as she had

the edge of the door and gave him

warned, “Take care that Toby doesn’t try to have his way with you while you’re

in that mind of yours, Charles? I wouldn’t

serious, baby. 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 if that were to happen because

a quick smile at Charles.

time she owed Toby a favor, after all, given that he had helped her out with the bank loan that racked up to billions and the project

used those as valid reasons to force her into returning his favor in whatever 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

nonchalance, Charles sighed in resignation. “Fine, then. I rest my case. Anyway, just keep

reassuring nod before waving goodbye at him as she ducked into the car and

muffled speaking voices coming from the other side, which meant Toby was

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

Sonia informed, showing

dawned upon the caretaker. “Oh, you must be

astonished Sonia asked, “You know

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

hearing the explanation. So, he told

in, Miss Reed. Mr. Fuller has been waiting for you for a while

a

sent 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 confessed with

“Thank

ravenous if he had been so desperate for her arrival. Then again, it was drawing close to 8:00PM and she was admittedly

with the thermal flask in hand, she walked into

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