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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?”

 

help my grandfather look for

with you,” he offered after taking a spoonful of

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

yet to heal and driving on your own would be torture; you’ll only return feeling worse. I’m offering my companionship as a matter of precaution and it’d also ease my worries,”

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

a new driver for her trip. “In that case, you can come along. We leave at 9:00AM tomorrow,” she said

eagerly. “Great, so that’s settled.

“Okay,” she replied.

down his offer to drop her off at the hospital. The drive

as she had opened her car door and was about to

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

features as he warned, “Take care that Toby doesn’t

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

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 owe

she 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 such a low-life that he’d

wouldn’t be the first time she owed Toby a favor, after all, given that he had helped her out with the

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

keep your guard up around him and remember that I’m just one call away if you

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

outside Toby’s room. The door was closed, but she picked up on muffled speaking voices coming from the other side, which meant

the next moment to reveal a middle-aged woman wearing a caretaker’s uniform on

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

the caretaker. “Oh, you must be Miss

astonished Sonia asked,

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

hearing the explanation. So, he told the caretaker

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

a

ten minutes ago to see if there was any ‘pretty young lady with a thermal flask’

Sonia laughed. “Thank you for taking the

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

thermal flask in hand, she walked into the

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