Sonia averted her gaze, refusing to look into his scary-looking eyes. Her gut told her that she absolutely mustn’t meet his gaze, or she might fall into a bottomless abyss.

Seeing that Sonia looked away, Toby let out a slight sigh before changing the topic. “Right, you called me this morning, didn’t you?”

Hearing him mention this, Sonia hastily nodded. “Yes.”

“Sorry, my phone was turned off this morning,” Toby replied.

Sonia looked at him. “I know. I just wanted to ask what we talked about last night? How did the call go on for more than 300 minutes?”

“Nothing much. You fell asleep.” His clarification was rather short and simple.

However, she didn’t seem to be convinced, frowning at his reply. “What do you mean? Are you saying that after I answered the call, I didn’t say anything to you and went straight to sleep?”

“Yes.” Toby nodded. “When I called you, you answered, murmured something, then stopped responding.”

Only now did Sonia get the picture of the situation. They hadn’t said anything at all over the phone last night, and she had merely slept throughout the phone call. “President Fuller, why didn’t you just hang up? Why did you just let the call go on like that?” Her lips twitched a little as she stated what seemed to be common sense.

Toby smiled, but he didn’t reply. He couldn’t tell her that he did it just to listen to her breathing and imagine that she was sleeping right beside him. Because he knew that if he said such things, she would think that he was crazy.

Seeing how Toby just smiled silently, Sonia was puzzled and couldn’t understand what was on his mind.

However, seeing how Toby behaved, Sonia knew he didn’t want to share. This was why she gave up pursuing the topic. Instead, she simply asked about his reason for calling her.

“Nothing much. I just wanted to ask when exactly you’d be back today. I never thought that you’d be asleep by the time I called.” Toby took a glass of water sitting on the bedside table and took a sip from it.

Sonia’s red lips parted as she was about to say something, but just then, a knock on the door interrupted her, and Tom’s voice sounded from outside. “President Fuller, I got the lunch you asked for.”

“I’ll get the door.” Without waiting for Toby to respond, Sonia stood up almost instantly.

After all, the food is meant for me. If I don’t take it myself, who would? Certainly not Toby.

and

surprised to see her. He simply passed the food to Sonia. “Miss Reed, President Fuller asked

eat right now. So, this lunch was obviously meant for Sonia. “Thank you, Mr.

I was just following orders.”

ago, where he would glare at her for no reason, but now he was extra cold

this was a consequence she had to shoulder. I caused his superior’s injury, after

went back to the bed. Toby was doing something on his tablet. When he saw her return, he looked up. “Eat up. I have a favor to ask from you

help with anything?” Sonia blinked

smiled faintly. “I’ll tell you after you’ve

tell, Sonia didn’t prod any further and sat down to eat. As Sonia ate, no words were exchanged between them as they busied themselves

the reports. The huge ward was silent save for the chewing and breathing. After about

didn’t notice where she was going. She

that, Toby tensed up, tossing his tablet away as he moved to

and the latter fell onto his bed,

pulled away the blanket, asking

The blanket caught my fall, so I didn’t knock against

his legs. She wasn’t sure whether this affected his injury. However, Toby shook his

the blanket as a shield, his legs were saved from the sudden pressure. He did feel

wasn’t lying to her. Then, she finally sighed in relief and moved to get

went wide

I seeing?! Miss Reed is sprawled in between Mr. Fuller’s legs… They…

worker couldn’t think any further. She was blushing madly as she covered her eyes and backed away. “Um… Pardon the intrusion. I never saw

worker hastily

and Toby heard the door slam shut, they

mean? She never saw what? What are

soon realized what the care worker’s

found that they were in a bizarre position just now, and

the care worker looked in

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