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

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

“You don’t

The muscles on your back have yet to heal and driving on your own would be torture; you’ll only

She knew that there was no way she could make a three-hour drive down to the countryside and back to the

to look for a new driver for her trip. “In that case, you can come along. We leave at 9:00AM

that’s settled. I’ll pick you up

“Okay,” she replied.

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

stubborn 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

of the door and

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

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

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

at Charles. “He’s not like that. I know him and he’s not such a

a favor, after all, given that he had helped her out with the bank loan that

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 as

I rest my case. Anyway, just keep your guard up around him and

it,” she said with a reassuring nod before waving goodbye at him as she ducked into the car and drove

was closed, but she picked up on muffled speaking

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 Sonia a polite smile and asked, “Hello, Miss.

see President Fuller. I brought him dinner,” Sonia informed, showing the woman

immediately dawned upon the caretaker. “Oh, you must

astonished Sonia 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 let her in

after hearing the explanation. So,

Fuller has been waiting for you for a while now,” the caretaker

raised a brow. “A

to see if there was any ‘pretty young lady with a

goodness.” Sonia laughed. “Thank

desperate for her arrival. Then again, it was drawing

the thermal flask in hand, she walked into

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