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.

knew what her face must look like

 

sudden rush of embarrassment. Realizing this, he rested his cheek

her face as though to relax her expression, inhaling deeply to calm her nerves

said plainly, “Because I don’t like

should Charles give up calling me that just

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 mockery in his eyes as he said this, and his voice was as grave as it was

Sonia’s eyes as she demanded, “Don’t you think you’re a little too

what I think is right,” Toby countered gently, his features

to say something, the door to the office

stood up even though Toby was still seated on the couch, and immediately sensed that something was off. “Oh, did I—” He broke off and shot Toby a nervous look, his heart beating frantically in his chest. “Did I

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

fault! I should have known better! This won’t

matter. Are you here because you’ve finished going through the security footage?” Toby asked

words ‘security footage’, Sonia hurriedly resumed her

there onward, she stayed put in the car. Here’s the footage I’ve edited.” Having reported that, he placed the laptop in front of Sonia and Toby, after which he clicked

followed by the

into the building, a black sedan pulled up on the street across from

at the black sedan and said, “Right there!

with her fists clenched, “This was the car

to you?”

then nodded. “I don’t actually find the car familiar, but the license plate rings

looked back at the footage, focusing on

Toby had no trouble reading the license plate at all. It featured a number thirteen, which seemed appropriate, given how

us. It 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 away. We figured it was only a coincidence that it was on the same route as us, but to be on

the owner?” Toby urged, his

her lower lip. “Well, 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 the

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