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 for his

should go back with you,” he offered after taking

him with suspicion. “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 my

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 down for

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

so that’s settled. I’ll pick you up

“Okay,” she replied.

with, the 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. The drive from her place to the First Hospital was

try and dissuade her. However, just as she had opened her

edge of the door and gave him a look of

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

mind of yours, Charles? I wouldn’t just

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 leverage and ask you for some strange favor. You and I both know you wouldn’t turn him down if that

a quick smile at Charles. “He’s not like

Toby a favor, after all, given that he had helped her out with the bank loan that racked up to billions and

would have been cornered. However, he never did and she was firm in her stance that it

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 she ducked into the car and

on muffled

the door. It opened the next moment to reveal a middle-aged woman wearing a caretaker’s uniform on the other side.

Fuller. I brought him dinner,” Sonia informed,

caretaker. “Oh,

asked,

to attend to Mr. Fuller earlier, he told me that a young lady

see,” Sonia responded after hearing the explanation. So, he told the

a while now,” the caretaker ushered as she stepped to the side to make way

a brow.

to the balcony ten minutes ago to see if there was

goodness.” Sonia laughed. “Thank

figured Toby was really ravenous if he had been so desperate for her arrival. Then again, it was drawing close to 8:00PM

the thermal flask in

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