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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 a spoonful of one of the

suspicion. “You don’t have

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 feeling worse. I’m offering my companionship as a matter of precaution and it’d also ease my worries,”

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 in pain. Besides, her driver had taken the next day off in

with no choice but to look for a new driver for her

that’s settled. I’ll pick you

“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

seeing how stubborn she was, he knew better than to try and dissuade her. However, just as she had opened her car door and was

the edge of the door and gave him a

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

yours, Charles?

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

hearing this, Sonia frowned, but she regained her composure in the next second and flashed a quick smile at Charles. “He’s not

that he had helped her out with the bank loan that

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

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

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

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

to reveal a middle-aged woman wearing a caretaker’s uniform on the other

brought him dinner,” Sonia informed, showing the woman the thermal flask

dawned upon the caretaker. “Oh, you must

asked,

earnest. “Yes. When I came in to attend to Mr. Fuller earlier, he told me that a young lady will be dropping by with his dinner and that

hearing the explanation. So, he told the caretaker about

has been waiting for you for a while now,” the caretaker ushered as she stepped to the side to make way for

raised a

ago to see if there was any ‘pretty young lady with

“Thank you for taking the

really ravenous if he had been so desperate for her arrival. Then again, it was drawing close to

the thermal flask in hand, she walked into the

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