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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

go back with you,” he offered after

eyed him with suspicion. “You don’t have to

and driving on your own would be torture; you’ll only

she could make a three-hour drive down to the countryside

were already at this stage, Sonia was left with no choice but to look for a new driver for her trip. “In that case, you can

settled. I’ll pick you up tomorrow

“Okay,” she replied.

of them left Sonia’s apartment. After having exited the gated area of Bayside Residence, she turned down his offer to drop her off

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

of the door and gave

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

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

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

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

first 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

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

rest my case. Anyway, just keep your guard up around him and remember that I’m just one call away if you run

goodbye at him as she ducked into the

but she picked up on muffled speaking voices coming from the other side, which meant Toby was likely engaged in a phone

knocked on the door. It 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 smile

I brought him dinner,” Sonia informed, showing the woman the thermal flask that she was

the caretaker. “Oh, you must be Miss

Sonia asked,

and nodded in earnest. “Yes. When I came in to attend to Mr. Fuller earlier, he told me that a

the explanation. So,

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

a brow. “A

me out to the balcony ten minutes ago to see if there was any ‘pretty young lady with

goodness.” Sonia laughed. “Thank you for

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

the thermal flask in hand, she walked into

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