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 the red tips of her ears, Toby more or less knew what her face must look like at the moment. It’s probably the same shade of

 

words earlier had brought about her sudden rush of embarrassment. Realizing this, he rested his cheek against the palm of his hand, and a teasing grin played on his lips

though to relax her expression, inhaling deeply to calm her nerves before she spun to

met her gaze and said plainly, “Because I don’t like

give up calling me

continue tolerating it. Sonia, I hope to be the only one who gets to call you by that nickname.” There

demanded, “Don’t you think you’re a little too

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

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

in the room and 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

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

was my fault! I should have known better!

you here because you’ve finished going through the security footage?” Toby asked in a bone-chilling

the words ‘security footage’, Sonia

of them. Tina was seen pulling up outside our building at 2.00PM, and from there onward, she stayed put in the

thing Sonia saw was her own red Mercedes-Benz appearing in the footage, followed by the scene where she

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

sedan and said, “Right there! That’s Tina’s

clenched, “This was the car she

Does the car seem familiar to you?” Toby

don’t actually find

at the footage, focusing on the license plate

had no trouble reading the license plate at all. It featured a number thirteen, which seemed appropriate, given how Tina was the very definition of

about to call the police, the car drove away. We figured

owner?” Toby urged, his face

that the owner of the license plate was just a normal civilian, so I let my guard down. But I didn’t think that

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