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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

you,” he

suspicion. “You don’t have to tag

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

her injuries, she reached to feel her back. A gentle 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

driver for her trip.

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

“Okay,” she replied.

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

held the edge of the door and gave him a look

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

mind of yours, Charles? I

serious, baby. You have to watch your back. Toby still hasn’t given up on you and now that he’s saved you from death, I wouldn’t put it past him to use your gratitude as leverage and ask you for some strange favor. You and I both know you wouldn’t turn him

composure in the next second and flashed a quick smile at Charles. “He’s not like that. I know him and he’s

a favor, after all, given that he had helped her

could have 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

Anyway, just keep your guard up around him and remember that I’m just one call away

goodbye at him as

later, she arrived outside Toby’s room. The door was closed, but she picked up on muffled speaking voices coming from the other side, which meant Toby was likely

caretaker’s uniform on the other side. The woman

him dinner,” Sonia informed, showing

immediately dawned upon the caretaker. “Oh, you

asked,

Fuller earlier, he told me that a young lady will be dropping by

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

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

raised a brow. “A

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

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 admittedly

thermal flask in hand, she walked into

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