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?”

 

grandfather look

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

“You don’t have to

have yet to heal and driving on your own would be torture; you’ll only return feeling worse. I’m offering

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

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 at 9:00AM tomorrow,” she said as she took

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

“Okay,” she replied.

of Bayside Residence, she turned down his offer to

seeing how stubborn she was, he knew better than to try and dissuade her. However, just as she had opened her

held the edge of the door

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

this. “What’s going on in that mind of yours, Charles? I wouldn’t just let him have his

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

regained her composure in the next second and flashed a quick smile at Charles. “He’s not like

she owed Toby a favor, after all, given that he had helped her

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

Anyway, just keep your guard up around him

she said with a reassuring nod before waving goodbye at him as she ducked

up on muffled speaking voices coming from the other

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

Fuller. I brought him dinner,” Sonia informed, showing

immediately dawned upon the caretaker.

Sonia asked,

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

Sonia responded after hearing the explanation. So, he told

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

a

He sent me out to the balcony ten minutes ago to see if there was any ‘pretty young lady with a thermal

laughed. “Thank you for taking the

so desperate for her arrival. Then again, it was drawing close to 8:00PM and

in hand, she walked into the

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