“Sonia?” Will felt this name was somewhat familiar. He pondered on it before he immediately thought of something and suddenly clapped his hands. “So, you are the friend whom my fiancee has mentioned to me, and also the lady that President Fuller spoke briefly about before. Nice to meet you.”
Then, he extended his hand toward Sonia. She looked at his hand with a frown, somewhat not wanting to engage in a handshake. However, she was not Toby who could simply ignore the other party. Thus, she had to shake Will’s hand to avoid offending him. Otherwise, he might cause her trouble, especially now that they were abroad and in his territory.
A helpless Sonia forced a smile as she extended her hand to take Will’s proffered hand.
At this moment, Toby suddenly reached over and gently pressed her hand down, preventing her from shaking Will’s hand. When she looked at Toby in surprise, he shook his head at her and looked at Will before explaining, “It’s not necessary to shake hands.”
Will suddenly reacted by laughing when he saw Toby’s dominance.
“Sorry, I wasn’t being courteous and forgot the relationship between you and Miss Reed. I hope you don’t mind, President Fuller.” After he said those words, he hurriedly lowered his hand.
While listening to Will's words, Sonia pursed her lips. He must have understood the nature of my relationship with Toby since he thought we were a couple. However, Sonia didn’t clear the air by telling the truth. After all, Toby had just helped her avoid shaking hands with Will, so she couldn’t possibly not show Toby some respect.
“Alright, what do you want?” Toby removed his hand from Sonia’s wrist and looked at Will before asking in an indifferent tone.
Will waved his hand. “It’s nothing. It’s just that I saw you here, President Fuller, so I came over to say hello to you.”
“In that case, we should go now that we have exchanged pleasantries.” After saying that, Toby pulled the car door open again.
Now that Jessica noticed Sonia and the others leaving, she hurriedly said after keeping silent with a decent smile earlier, “Wait a minute.”
As a result of that, Sonia and Toby stopped in their tracks. As for Will, he admonished Jessica with a hard face, “What are you doing?”
Jessica feigned that she hadn’t heard Will’s words and didn’t spare him a glance. After taking a deep breath, she took a step forward and put on what she thought was her most beautiful smile before addressing Toby with a soft, delicate voice, “How could you guys just leave? I haven't introduced myself yet. My name is Jess—”
“There’s no need to since we’re not interested.” Before Jessica could even finish with her introduction, Toby had directly interrupted her with an impatient tone.
The smile on Jessica’s face stiffened as she never expected that he wouldn’t show due respect for her feelings. She was embarrassed and exasperated at that moment since she didn’t know how to continue with the conversation as she stood there.
When she saw that Jessica was upset, Sonia felt especially pleased and looked at Toby with approval before mouthing, “Well done.”
As Toby never expected Sonia to praise him, he simply chuckled. The moment that Jessica saw their interaction, it gave rise to her jealousy. She clenched her fists and spoke again, “Sonia, since you’re my dear sister, why won’t you introduce me to this gentleman?”
“Sister?” Will froze as his gaze alternated between Jessica and Sonia.
“You two are... sisters?!”
“Yes, Will. Sonia and I are biological sisters.” Jessica looked at the outraged Sonia and gently stroked her hair with a smug. Since Toby was unwilling to listen to her self-introduction, surely he wouldn’t refuse to listen if she dragged Sonia along, right? No matter what, I must make this man remember my name today!
“Oh, that’s right,” a surprised Will added. “This lady is Sonia Reed
whereas you are Jessica Reed. You guys share the same last name, which means that you are really sisters.” “Of course we are. We’re half-sisters from the same father.”
“Sorry, we are not sisters. I can’t acknowledge someone who doesn’t even recognize her own father as my sister,” Sonia coldly replied as she furrowed her eyebrows.
It was only then that Will realized that the pair of sisters never exchanged a single greeting since the moment they met earlier. Since they were avoiding speaking to each other, it seemed like they had an acrimonious
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