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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?”

 

grandfather look for his

Then, maybe I should go back with you,” he offered after taking a spoonful of one of

with suspicion. “You don’t have to tag

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

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 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 light of his

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 took a sip

that’s settled. I’ll pick you up

“Okay,” she replied.

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

than to try and dissuade her. However, just as she had opened her car door and was about to slide

the edge of the door and gave him

his features as he warned, “Take care that Toby

that mind of yours, Charles? I wouldn’t just

him to use your gratitude as leverage and ask you for some strange favor. You and I

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

given that he had helped her out with the bank loan that

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 her stance that it wasn’t in his nature to do something as underhanded as

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

goodbye at him as she ducked

she arrived outside Toby’s room. The door was closed, but she picked up on muffled speaking

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

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

dawned upon the caretaker. “Oh,

asked, “You know

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

after hearing the explanation. So, he told the caretaker

a while now,” the caretaker ushered as she stepped to the side to make

a brow.

He sent me out to the balcony ten minutes ago to see if there was any ‘pretty young lady with a thermal flask’ approaching the ward,” the caretaker confessed

Sonia laughed. “Thank you for

figured Toby was really ravenous if he had been so desperate for her arrival. Then again, it was

in hand, she

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