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 at the moment.

 

about her sudden rush of embarrassment. Realizing this, he rested his cheek against the palm of his hand, and a teasing

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

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

lips. “That’s your problem. Why should Charles give up calling me

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

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

doing what I think is right,”

but just as she was about to say something, the door to the office swung open before Tom marched in with a

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

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.

was my fault! I should have known better! This won’t happen

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

‘security footage’, Sonia hurriedly

grimly. “Yes, I’ve 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 placed the laptop in front of Sonia and Toby, after which he

her own red Mercedes-Benz appearing in the footage, followed by

building, a black sedan pulled up on the street

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

fists clenched, “This was

to you?”

don’t actually find the car familiar, but the

eyes and looked back at the footage, focusing

reading the license plate at all. It featured a number thirteen,

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

the owner?” Toby urged, his

“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

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