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

I should go back with you,” he offered after taking a spoonful of one of the

suspicion. “You don’t have to tag

to heal and driving on your own would be torture; you’ll only return feeling worse.

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 day off in light of his daughter’s

already at this 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

so that’s settled.

“Okay,” she replied.

she turned down his

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 driver’s seat,

edge of the door and gave him a look

“Take care that Toby doesn’t try to have his way with you

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

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

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

wouldn’t be the first time she owed Toby a favor, after all, given that he had helped her out with the bank loan that racked

he pleased and she would have been cornered. However, he never did and she was firm in her stance that it wasn’t in

then. I rest my case. Anyway, just keep your guard

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

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

next moment to reveal a middle-aged woman wearing a caretaker’s uniform on the other side. The woman gave Sonia a polite

here to see President Fuller. I brought him dinner,” Sonia informed, showing the woman the thermal flask that she was

the caretaker. “Oh, you

Sonia asked,

to attend to Mr. Fuller earlier, he told me that a young lady will be dropping by with his dinner

hearing the explanation. So, he

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

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

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

with the thermal flask in hand, she walked into the

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