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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

Then, maybe I should go back with you,” he

“You don’t have to tag

be torture; you’ll only return feeling worse. I’m offering

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

but to look for a new driver for her trip. “In that

“Great, so that’s settled.

“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

seeing how stubborn she was, he knew better than to try and dissuade her. However, just as she had opened her car door and was about to slide into the

is it?” She held the edge of the

warned, “Take care that Toby doesn’t try

on in that mind of yours, Charles? I

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 were to happen

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 resort

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

whatever way he pleased and she would have been cornered. However, he never did and she was firm in her

the sight of her nonchalance, Charles sighed in resignation. “Fine, then. I rest my case. Anyway, just keep your guard up around him and remember that

nod before waving goodbye at him

picked up on muffled speaking voices coming from the other side, which meant Toby was likely

and 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

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

immediately dawned upon the caretaker. “Oh,

Sonia asked, “You know

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

hearing the explanation. So, he told the caretaker

Mr. Fuller has been waiting for you for a while

raised a brow. “A

to see if there was any ‘pretty young lady with a thermal flask’ approaching

Sonia laughed. “Thank

her arrival. Then again, it was drawing close to 8:00PM and she was admittedly

such, with the thermal flask in hand, she walked into the hospital

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