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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 for

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

“You don’t

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

way she could make a three-hour drive down to the countryside and back to the city again; sitting down for hours on

a new driver for her trip. “In that case, you can come along. We leave

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

“Okay,” she replied.

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

just as she had opened her car door and was about to slide into the driver’s seat, he suddenly said, “Hey,

She held the edge of the door and gave him a look

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

that mind of yours, Charles? I wouldn’t just

from death, I wouldn’t put it past him to use your gratitude as leverage and ask you for some strange favor. You

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

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 up

whatever way he pleased and she would have been cornered. However, he

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

goodbye at him as she ducked

Toby’s room. The door was closed, but she picked up on muffled speaking voices

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.

him dinner,” Sonia informed, showing

dawned upon the caretaker. “Oh, you

asked,

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

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

for a while now,” the caretaker

a

if there was any ‘pretty young lady with a thermal flask’ approaching the ward,”

goodness.” Sonia laughed. “Thank you

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

the thermal flask in hand, she walked into the hospital

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