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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

back with you,” he offered after taking a spoonful of

him with suspicion. “You don’t

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

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 back shrivel up

to look for a new driver for her trip. “In that

settled. I’ll pick you

“Okay,” she replied.

of them left Sonia’s apartment. 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 place to the First Hospital

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 said,

the edge of the door and gave him a look of

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

that mind of yours, Charles? I wouldn’t just let him

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

this, Sonia frowned, but she regained her composure in the next second and flashed a quick smile at Charles.

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

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 in his nature to

sight of her nonchalance, Charles sighed in resignation. “Fine, then. I rest my case. Anyway, just keep your guard up around him and remember that I’m just one call away

a reassuring nod before waving goodbye at him as she

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 engaged in a

a hand and knocked on the door. It opened the next moment to reveal a middle-aged woman wearing a caretaker’s uniform on the other side. The woman gave

him dinner,” Sonia informed, showing the woman the thermal

upon the caretaker. “Oh, you must

asked, “You know

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 and that I was to let

the explanation. So, he told the caretaker about me

Miss Reed. Mr. Fuller has been waiting for you for a while now,” the

raised a

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

goodness.” Sonia laughed. “Thank you

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

the thermal flask in

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