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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 for

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

with suspicion. “You don’t

driver. The muscles on your back 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 also ease my worries,” Charles explained

reminded of her injuries, she reached 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

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

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

“Okay,” she replied.

area of Bayside Residence, she turned down his offer to drop her off at the

he knew better than to try and dissuade her. However, just as she had opened her car door and was about to

it?” She held the edge of the door and gave him a look

hard edge to his features as he warned, “Take care that Toby doesn’t try to have his way with you while you’re looking after

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

on you and now that he’s saved you from death, I wouldn’t put it past him to use your gratitude as

Sonia frowned, but she regained her composure in the next second and flashed a quick smile at Charles. “He’s not like that. I know him and he’s not such a

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

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 wasn’t in his nature to do something as underhanded

the 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

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

door was closed, but she picked up on muffled speaking voices coming from the

opened the next moment to reveal a middle-aged woman wearing a caretaker’s uniform on the other side. The woman gave Sonia a polite smile and asked, “Hello, Miss. How may

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

immediately dawned upon the caretaker. “Oh, you

Sonia asked, “You know

earlier, he told me that a young lady will be dropping by with his dinner and that I was to let her in without

So, he told the caretaker about

a while now,” the caretaker ushered as she stepped

raised a brow. “A

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

“Thank you for taking the

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

the thermal flask in hand,

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