Chapter 458 Toby’s Plan

After having fed Toby a mouthful of chowder, Sonia placed the spoon aside and asked expectantly, “What do you think?”

“It’s delicious,” he said after he swallowed the chowder to give her a reassuring nod.

She broke into a smile. “Good. I’m glad.” Glad that all the stock-brewing, the dicing, the simmering and the stirring are all worth this moment of praise, she thought. Then, she brought another spoonful of chowder to his lips and prompted, “Here, have some more.”

 

And just like that, the both of them fell into a rhythm and before they knew it, the bowl was practically polished clean.

Sonia rose from her seat and asked, “Would you like another bowl?”

Toby shook his head. “No, thanks. I’m full.”

“Already?” She glanced at the empty bowl in her hand and frowned slightly. “You barely ate, though!” More importantly, the bowl she used was a small one and there couldn’t have been much chowder in it to fill him up so quickly, not while he was a man with a six-foot-three build.

“I’m actually full,” he insisted calmly as he took the mouthwash the caretaker had given him. “They gave me another bottle of IV after you left in the afternoon. Apparently, the fluid contains some substance that makes one feel a little bloated.”

“Oh, okay.” Sonia nodded at this new information. “Well then, I won’t try to force-feed you. I’ll keep the rest of the chowder in the fridge, so maybe you can get the caretaker to heat it up for you for breakfast tomorrow.”

 

“Alright,” Toby replied.

suite and returned to the room after she had

seeing that he was the only one in the room, she

let her off her shift,” he explained

his bed, she pressed, “What are you going to do at night if you let her off early

on my

hands, she began to make her way to where she had left

of this, Toby’s

be. I mean, it’s already 9:00PM,” she pointed out as

hand and asked,

She cast him a bewildered

could talk for a bit. A friendly chat.”

Nodding in agreement, she said, “Very well, but I must leave at

A satisfied smile pulled

stay for a chat, but in all honesty, it was more of a crash course on

best way to navigate the tough commercial world. He even touched on the ideal direction that Paradigm Co. should take in terms of corporate growth and the various industries that the company should invest

to coach her on these things over the course of a hopefully developing friendship, but following the drastic shortening

guide her through life in the industry. He had to teach

mercilessly chew and spit Sonia out as every one of its nooks and crevices was marked with scheme. She was

the industry was. He would have shielded her from all of

for there to be room for hope. He was destined to wither away and leave her unprotected, but he would do whatever he could

admittedly taken aback by Toby’s sudden coaching. She couldn’t shake the feeling that he

off such thoughts and paid attention, clinging

to thrive and survive. Experiences like his were hard to come by, much less be narrated in person, and she didn’t want to

ticked by, and soon, it

that she was supposed to return home at 10.00PM and as it is, she was already fast asleep with her head resting

at her and called out softly,

she was sleeping

to stir her awake. Glancing around the room, he saw the jacket she had hung up on the rack next

was busted, he would have carried her into

eyes fell on the cast on his arm and a rueful, imperceptible

wouldn’t fall off her shoulders, Toby reached out to move her

all this when the door to the hospital room opened. Tom came bustling in with documents in hand

what he did wrong at first, but thankfully, he snapped out of his confusion in time to notice Sonia’s sleeping frame as she slouched over the bed. At that moment, he finally understood the warning look in Toby’s

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