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 kept everything

one in the room, she glanced around and asked,

her off her shift,” he explained with a book in his

his bed, she pressed, “What are you going

and I’m perfectly capable of being on my

she saw his point, Sonia nodded. After dusting off her hands, she began to make her way to where she had left

Toby’s gaze darkened. “Are you

mean, it’s already 9:00PM,” she pointed out as she took

aside the book in his hand and asked, “Would you mind staying here

cast him a

bit. A friendly chat.” He

after a moment of hesitation, she relented. Nodding in agreement, she said, “Very well, but I must leave at 10:00PM. I need to get

satisfied smile pulled on

and took her seat once more next to the bed. He had asked that she stay for a chat, but in all honesty, it was more of a crash course on business management than

way to navigate the tough commercial world. He even touched on the ideal direction that Paradigm Co. should take in terms of

course of a hopefully developing friendship, but following the drastic shortening of his lifespan, he now only had three good years, during which his body

time to be her mentor and guide her through life in the industry. He had to teach

Sonia out as every one of its nooks and crevices was marked with scheme. She was still green, so there was no way she could understand how dark and twisted the

have to discover how terrifying the industry was. He would have shielded her from all of it and kept her rose-colored glasses intact even if the

and leave her unprotected, but he would do whatever he could

that he was urgently

brushed off such thoughts and paid attention, clinging to

ones that helped him to thrive and survive. Experiences like his were hard to come by, much less be narrated in person, and she didn’t want to miss out on

ticked by, and

supposed to return home at 10.00PM and as it is, she

her and

was sleeping soundly, for she did not wake

himself to stir her awake. Glancing around the room, he saw the jacket she had hung up on the rack next to the bed. He lifted the covers off and reached to

weren’t for the fact that one of his arms was busted, he would have carried her into the adjoining room meant for caretakers who stayed

on the cast on his arm and a rueful, imperceptible sigh

sure that the jacket wouldn’t fall off her shoulders, Toby reached out to move her

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

idea what he did wrong at first, but thankfully, he snapped out of his confusion in time

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