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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

back with you,” he offered after taking a spoonful

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

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 as a matter of precaution and it’d also

a three-hour drive down to the countryside and back to the city again; sitting down for hours

at this stage, Sonia was left with no 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

eagerly. “Great, so that’s settled.

“Okay,” she replied.

turned down his offer

just as she had opened her car door and was about to slide into the driver’s

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

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

that mind of yours, Charles?

past him to use your gratitude as leverage and ask you for

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

favor, after all, given that he had helped her out with the bank loan that racked up to

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

keep your guard

before waving goodbye at him as she ducked

picked up on muffled speaking voices coming from the other side,

moment to reveal a middle-aged woman wearing a caretaker’s uniform

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

immediately dawned upon the caretaker. “Oh, you must

asked,

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 let her in without

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

a while now,” the caretaker

raised a brow.

was any ‘pretty young lady with a thermal flask’ approaching the ward,”

laughed. “Thank you

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

the thermal flask in hand, she

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