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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?”

 

help my grandfather look

is that it? Then, maybe I should go back with you,” he offered after

eyed him with suspicion. “You

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

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 back shrivel up in pain. Besides, her driver had taken the next

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

“Great, so that’s settled. I’ll pick

“Okay,” she replied.

both 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.

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

the door

his features as he warned, “Take care that Toby

going on in that mind of yours, Charles? I wouldn’t just let

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 were to happen because you

her 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 out with the bank loan that racked up

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

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 if you run

waving goodbye at him as

room. The door was closed, but she picked up on muffled speaking voices coming

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 Sonia

him dinner,” Sonia informed, showing the woman

caretaker.

asked, “You

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

responded after hearing the explanation. So,

Fuller has been waiting for you for a while now,” the caretaker ushered as she stepped to

raised a

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

laughed. “Thank you for

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

with the thermal flask in

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