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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

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

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

stage, Sonia was left with no choice but to look for a new driver for her trip. “In that case, you can

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

“Okay,” she replied.

turned down his offer to drop her off at the hospital. The drive from her place to the First Hospital was

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

is it?” She held the edge of the door and

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

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

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

second and flashed a quick smile at Charles. “He’s not

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

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 as

my case. Anyway, just keep your

it,” she said with a reassuring nod before waving goodbye at

later, she arrived outside Toby’s room. The door was closed, but she picked up on muffled

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. How may I

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

immediately dawned upon the caretaker. “Oh, you

Sonia asked, “You know

smiled and nodded in earnest. “Yes. When I came in to attend to Mr. Fuller earlier, he told me that a

hearing the explanation. So, he told the caretaker about

while now,” the

raised a brow. “A

minutes ago to see if there was any ‘pretty young lady with

“Thank you for taking the

if he had been so desperate for her arrival. Then again, it was drawing close to 8:00PM and she was admittedly

in

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