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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?”

 

grandfather look

is that it? Then, maybe I should go back with you,” he offered after taking

eyed him with suspicion. “You don’t have to

driving on your own would be torture; you’ll only return feeling worse. I’m offering my companionship as

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 hours on end would make her back shrivel up in pain. Besides, her driver had taken the next day off in light of his

new driver for her trip. “In that case, you can come

that’s settled.

“Okay,” she replied.

left Sonia’s apartment. After having exited the gated area of Bayside Residence, she turned down his offer to drop her off

as she

She held the edge of the door and gave him a

hard edge to his features as he warned, “Take care that

mind of yours, Charles?

put it past him to use your gratitude as leverage and ask you for some

she regained her composure in the next second and flashed a quick smile at Charles. “He’s

first time she owed Toby a favor, after all, given that he had helped her out with

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 wasn’t in his nature to do something as

just keep

a reassuring nod before waving goodbye at him as she ducked into the

was closed, but she picked up on muffled speaking voices coming from the other side, which meant

a caretaker’s uniform

brought him dinner,” Sonia informed, showing the woman the thermal flask that

dawned upon the caretaker. “Oh,

Sonia asked, “You know

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

Sonia responded after hearing the explanation. So, he told the caretaker

you for a while now,” the caretaker ushered as she stepped to

raised a

to see if there was

goodness.” Sonia laughed. “Thank you for

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

in

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