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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

suspicion. “You don’t have to

to heal and driving on your own would be

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

for her trip. “In

nodded eagerly. “Great, so that’s settled.

“Okay,” she replied.

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

was, he knew better 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 suddenly

edge of the door and gave him a

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

in that mind of yours,

death, I wouldn’t put it past him to use your gratitude as leverage and ask you for some strange favor. You

at Charles. “He’s not like that. I know him and he’s not such a low-life that he’d resort to

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

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

I rest my case. Anyway, just keep

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

up on muffled speaking voices coming from the other side, which meant Toby was likely

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

here to see President Fuller. I brought him dinner,” Sonia informed, showing the woman

the caretaker.

asked, “You

in earnest. “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

responded after hearing the explanation. So, he told the caretaker about

a while now,”

raised a brow. “A

if there was any ‘pretty young lady with a thermal

Sonia laughed. “Thank you for taking the

Toby was really ravenous if he had been so desperate for her arrival. Then again, it was drawing close to 8:00PM and she was

such, with the thermal flask in hand, she walked into the

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