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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 look for his

should go back with you,” he offered after

suspicion. “You don’t have

I do. 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,”

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

new driver for her trip. “In that case, you can come along. We leave at 9:00AM

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

“Okay,” she replied.

Bayside Residence, she turned down his offer to drop her off at the hospital.

as she had opened her

She held the edge of the door and gave

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

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

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

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

after all, given that he had helped her out with the bank loan that racked up to billions and the project

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 as

her nonchalance, Charles sighed in resignation. “Fine, then. I rest my case. Anyway, just keep your guard up around him

nod before waving goodbye at him as she ducked into

but she picked up on muffled speaking

a 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.

dinner,” Sonia informed, showing the woman the thermal

the caretaker. “Oh, you must be Miss

Sonia asked, “You

I came in to attend to Mr. Fuller earlier, he told me that a young

So, he told the caretaker about me in

Reed. Mr. Fuller has been waiting for you for a while now,” the caretaker ushered as she stepped to the side to make

a

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

laughed. “Thank you for taking the

so desperate for her arrival. Then again, it was drawing close to 8:00PM and she

in hand, she walked into the hospital

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