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.

less knew what her face

 

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 as he drawled, “Make him stop calling you that from now

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

and said plainly, “Because I don’t

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

inappropriate behavior for long enough, and I have no plans to continue tolerating it. Sonia, I hope to be the only one

eyes as she demanded, “Don’t

just doing what I think is right,” Toby countered gently, his

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

came in, he registered the strange dynamics 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 something was off. “Oh, did I—” He broke off and shot Toby a nervous look, his heart beating frantically

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

It was my fault! I should have known better! This

finished going through the security footage?” Toby asked in a bone-chilling

‘security footage’, Sonia

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

was her own red Mercedes-Benz appearing in the footage, followed by the scene where she got down from the car and

building, a black sedan pulled up on the street

pointed at the black sedan and said, “Right there! That’s Tina’s

her fists clenched, “This was the

familiar to you?” Toby asked, looking at her

don’t actually find the car

at the footage,

had no trouble reading the license plate at all. It featured a

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

who was the owner?” Toby

lower lip. “Well, the data showed that the owner of the license plate was just a normal civilian, so I

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