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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

with you,” he offered after taking

with suspicion. “You

do. I can 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 as a

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

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

eagerly. “Great, so that’s settled. I’ll pick you up

“Okay,” she replied.

After having exited the gated area of Bayside Residence, she turned down his offer to drop her off at the hospital. The drive from her

better than to try and dissuade her. However, just as she had opened her car

the edge of the

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

on in that mind of yours, Charles? I

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

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 he’s not such a low-life that he’d resort to something like

he had

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

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

before waving goodbye at him as she

muffled speaking voices coming from the other side, which meant

wearing a caretaker’s uniform on the other side. The

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

immediately dawned upon the caretaker. “Oh,

astonished Sonia asked, “You know

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

see,” Sonia responded after hearing the explanation. So, he

come in, Miss Reed. Mr. Fuller has been waiting for you for a while now,” the caretaker ushered as she

raised a

right. He sent me out to the balcony ten minutes ago to see if there was

Sonia laughed. “Thank

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

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

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