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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

with you,” he offered after

eyed him with suspicion. “You don’t

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

a three-hour drive

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

“Great, so that’s settled. I’ll

“Okay,” she replied.

dinner was done 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

dissuade her. However, just as she

She held the edge of the door and gave him a look of

he warned, “Take care that Toby doesn’t try

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

put it past him to use your gratitude as leverage and ask you for some strange favor. You and I both know you

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 resort to

he had helped her out with the bank loan that racked up

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

resignation. “Fine, then. I rest my case. Anyway, just keep your guard up around him and remember that I’m just

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

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

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

I brought him dinner,” Sonia informed, showing

upon the caretaker. “Oh,

asked, “You

“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 I was to

hearing the explanation. So, he told the caretaker about me in

a while now,” the caretaker ushered as

a

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

Sonia laughed. “Thank you for taking the

had been so desperate for her arrival. Then again, it

such, with the thermal flask in hand,

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