Chapter 534 The Grudges Between Them

Not long after the three of them had returned to Toby’s office, the doctor Tom summoned earlier arrived. Immediately, Sonia cleared away the things on the coffee table to make room for the doctor’s medical kit.

However, the doctor had only just put down his kit when Toby pointed at Sonia and instructed, “Attend to her first.”

“President Fuller!”

 

“No!”

Tom and Sonia protested simultaneously, making their objections clear. As far as Tom was concerned, Sonia was relatively unscathed, whereas Toby’s foot was swollen.

As such, it made sense for the doctor to tend to Toby’s injuries first instead of checking up on Sonia.

Sonia, on the other hand, thought the same thing. The abrasions on her arm were not any worse than Toby’s swollen ankle, but more importantly, he had been the one who stepped in and saved her in time. On that point alone, he rightfully deserved all the medical attention.

At the sight of Sonia’s stony expression and stubborn refusal, Toby parted his lips to say something but thought better of it when he felt her overwhelming authority loom over him.

seen him give up on his attempt to argue that she looked away and addressed the doctor in a white coat with a polite smile.

 

with a perfunctory nod. “President Fuller, could you please

seemingly reluctant to

a flustered hen, saying, “Didn’t you hear the doctor? Lift your leg up so he can examine it! How else do you expect him to go about this?” Without warning, she

hadn’t expected her to do this, and he stiffened at the sudden gesture. However, this only made it harder for Sonia to lift

snapped out of his daze. He couldn’t suppress

she felt that his leg was not quite as heavy and stiff as before, she successfully lifted it

to the sofa and crouched down, thereafter

mouth to keep from laughing. He was highly entertained by how Toby dared not utter a word of complaint even though he was anal about someone touching his foot, all because Sonia was staring at him like

at, and he narrowed his eyes at the latter as though saying icily, I can’t believe you have the nerve to laugh at me when you don’t even have a

twitch before he put on a straight face again, though his pride was definitely hurt. He’s right. I probably shouldn’t make

Tom, Sonia kneeled down before Toby’s injured

pain and turned to grab a bottle of cooling spray from his medical kit. Shaking the aluminum bottle twice, he aimed the nozzle at Toby’s swollen ankle and sprayed it. “It’s nothing serious. He put a strain on his ligament, which is just another way of saying

Toby and flashed him a bright smile. “Did you hear that? The

nodded, eyeing her with endearment as he answered,

you for what you did earlier.” They had been downstairs, and she was just about to get into the car when she

her by, but to her surprise, the car had intended to

back to the pavement, Tina would have knocked her off her feet and

as much as I do. I couldn’t just do nothing and watch you get hurt before my very eyes,”

haunted by the fact that he had failed to save her. With that

He couldn’t bring himself to accept how dire the situation could have been had he not been there to save

subtle confession, Sonia felt her heart begin to race, and she parted her lips to

hurt than anything else,” Toby said, cutting her off. At any

to keep her voice steady as she choked out, “Toby, don’t you

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