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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

you,” he offered after

eyed him with suspicion. “You

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

was reminded of her injuries, she reached to feel her back. A gentle prod was all it took 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

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

settled. I’ll pick

“Okay,” she replied.

down his offer to drop her off at the hospital. The drive from her place to the First Hospital was forty

than to try and dissuade her. However, just as she had opened her car door and was about to slide into the driver’s seat, he

held the edge of the door and gave him a

“Take care that Toby doesn’t try

this. “What’s going on in that mind of yours, Charles? I

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

regained her composure in the next second and flashed a quick smile at Charles. “He’s not like that. I know him

the first time she owed Toby a favor, after all, given that he had helped her

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

in resignation. “Fine, then. I rest my case. Anyway, just keep your guard

it,” she said with a reassuring nod before waving goodbye at him

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

opened the next moment to reveal a middle-aged woman wearing a caretaker’s uniform on the other side. The woman gave Sonia a polite

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

upon the caretaker. “Oh, you must be

Sonia asked, “You know

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

Sonia responded after 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

a brow.

if there was any ‘pretty young lady

laughed. “Thank you for taking the

Toby was really ravenous if he had been so desperate for her arrival.

the thermal flask in hand,

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