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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?”

 

my grandfather

go back with you,” he offered after taking a spoonful of one of the

him with suspicion. “You don’t have

be torture; you’ll only return feeling worse. I’m offering my companionship as a matter of precaution and it’d also ease my worries,”

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,

stage, 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,” she said as she

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

“Okay,” she replied.

and over with, the both of them left Sonia’s apartment. After having exited the gated area of Bayside Residence, she turned down his offer to drop her off at the hospital. The drive from her place to the First Hospital was forty minutes, which

just as she had opened her car door and was about to

edge of the

edge to his features as he warned, “Take care that Toby doesn’t try to have his way with

going on in that mind of yours, Charles? I

use your gratitude as leverage and ask you for

a quick smile at Charles. “He’s not like that. I know him and he’s

that he had helped her out with the bank loan that

have been cornered. However, he never did and she was firm in her

case. Anyway, just keep your guard up around him and remember that

goodbye at him

was closed, but she picked up on muffled speaking voices coming from the other side, which meant

moment to reveal a middle-aged woman wearing a caretaker’s uniform on the other side. The

Fuller. I brought him dinner,” Sonia informed, showing the woman

immediately dawned upon the caretaker. “Oh, you

asked,

Mr. Fuller earlier, he told me that a young lady will be dropping by with his dinner and that I

responded after hearing the explanation. So, he told the caretaker about me in

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

raised a

minutes ago to see if there was

goodness.” Sonia laughed. “Thank you for taking the

figured Toby was really ravenous if he had been so desperate for her arrival. Then again, it was drawing close to 8:00PM

thermal flask in

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