Chapter 537 A Little Too Unreasonable

Sonia had one hand pressing her chest and the other fanning herself to cool down the flush on her face.

Toby stared at her in mild bewilderment and asked, “Are you okay?”

“I-I’m perfectly fine!” Sonia stammered, swallowing convulsively as she looked down to avoid his gaze. My goodness, what’s wrong with me? Why is my heart beating so fast? Why is my face burning up? Calm down! He wasn’t actually calling me ‘baby’; he was only platonically referring to Charles’ nickname for me, so why am I acting so weird about it?

 

Charles had more often than not called her ‘baby’, but never once had she ever felt the way she did now. Logically speaking, the way Toby had called her by the same nickname shouldn’t affect her this much.

Presently, Toby could tell that Sonia was being evasive. With narrowed eyes, he gazed at her intently, as though he wanted to see through her.

After a pause, he appeared to understand what was going on. Dark amusement glittered in his eyes as he leaned forward, closing the distance between them. The corner of his lips curled with a devious smirk as he said slowly, “You still haven’t answered me, Sonia. Does Charles still call you ‘baby’? Hmm?”

This time, he added even more emphasis and bass to the word, and the suggestive edge that came with his gravelly tone only made Sonia draw in a sharp breath.

“S-Stay away from me!” She abruptly stood up and marched forward, effectively putting some distance between them. She had her back turned to him, and she refused to spin around no matter what.

of her ears, Toby more or less knew what her face must look

 

he rested his cheek against the palm of his hand,

to relax her expression, inhaling deeply to calm her

said

your problem. Why should Charles give up calling me that just because you

behavior for long enough, and I have no plans to continue tolerating it. Sonia, I hope to be the only one who gets to call you by that nickname.” There was no hesitation or

eyes as she demanded, “Don’t you think you’re a

I’m just doing what I think is right,” Toby countered gently, his features softening with

her lips, but just as she was about to say something, the door to the office swung open before

halted in his long strides. He saw that Sonia had stood up even though Toby was still seated on the couch, and immediately sensed that something

happened between Sonia and Toby, and his sudden entrance interrupted them. With that in mind, Tom wished that lightning could strike him on the spot. He slowly assessed Toby’s icy expression and instantly knew that he had come in at a bad time. His lips twitched anxiously as he tried to

my fault! I

because you’ve finished going through the security footage?” Toby asked in a bone-chilling voice, rubbing his

the words ‘security footage’, Sonia hurriedly

gone through all of them. Tina was seen pulling up outside our building at 2.00PM, and from there onward, she stayed put in the car. Here’s the footage I’ve edited.” Having reported that, he

Mercedes-Benz appearing in the footage, followed by the scene where she got down from the car

she walked into the building, a black sedan pulled

black sedan and said, “Right

clenched, “This was the car

car seem familiar to you?” Toby

don’t actually find the car familiar, but the license plate rings a

plate?” Toby narrowed his eyes and looked back at the footage, focusing on the license

and in technicolor, and Toby had no trouble reading the license plate at all. It featured a

was the same car, and I know this because the license plate was particular enough to catch my eye. But just as Charles and I were about to call the police, the car drove

owner?” Toby urged, his

the data showed that the owner of the license plate was just a normal civilian, so I let my guard down. But I didn’t think that Tina would turn out to be

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