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?”

 

help my grandfather

with you,” he

eyed him with suspicion. “You don’t have

course I do. I can be your driver. The muscles on your back have yet to heal and driving on your own would be torture;

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

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

settled. I’ll

“Okay,” she replied.

Bayside Residence, she turned down his offer to drop her

seeing how stubborn she 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

of the

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

mind of yours,

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 down if that

this, Sonia frowned, but she regained her composure in the next second and flashed a quick smile at Charles. “He’s not like

the first time she owed Toby a favor, after all, given that he had helped her out with the bank loan that racked up to billions and

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

“Fine, then. I rest my case. Anyway, just keep your guard up around him and remember that I’m just one call away if you

it,” she said with a reassuring nod before waving goodbye at him

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

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

brought him dinner,” Sonia informed, showing the woman the thermal flask that

upon the caretaker. “Oh, you must be

asked, “You

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

So, he told the

you for a while now,” the

a brow. “A

He sent me out 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

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

such, with the thermal flask in hand,

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