Madam Escaped Again Sir novel Chapter 580

“Grandma asked me to notify you to join her for lunch at the old manor,” Toby replied.

“Lunch?” Sonia was bewildered. “Is it a special occasion?”

“No, it’s not. Grandma wanted me to invite you, so that’s what I did.” As he said this, Toby shook his head lightly.

A smiling Sonia agreed. “Yeah, sure. I’ll come tomorrow.”

“Let’s go together tomorrow then. I will pick you up from your company,” he suggested while looking at her.

After hesitating for a few seconds, Sonia saw the anticipation in his eyes and agreed in the end. “Sure.”

“It’s agreed then.” Toby smiled.

Half an hour later, they arrived at the hotel. As they entered, Toby helped Sonia to open the door to the private room. She accepted his gesture and walked inside. After Toby closed the door, he quickly caught up to her.

As the others had already arrived, they were all seated and waiting for them. The moment that they saw those two entering together, the CEOs exchanged looks with one another again. Seeing as to how they have entered together, they must be rather close now.

It’s quite obvious that they have reconciled, no? Looks like we’ll have to get close to Paradigm Co. from now on!

Not knowing or even having the desire to know their thoughts, Toby simply walked to the two empty seats in front and pulled one out. As he patted the back of that particular chair, he addressed Sonia, “Sit here.”

Sonia never expected Toby to be this affectionate in front of many people, which made her feel a tad bit uncomfortable as she wondered whether she should sit or not. After all, there really wasn’t anything going on between them. So, for her to accept his advances like that, it was something she couldn’t bring herself to do. However, if she were to reject him in front of the CEOs, it would only serve to embarrass him.

With his kind of status, if she humiliated him, it would definitely not blow over easily. As such, he would be treated as a laughing stock in the entire industry. In fact, there were many people in their field who wanted to see Toby fall from grace. After all, they had been living in Toby’s shadow for way too long. Yet, due to Toby often resorting to strong-arm tactics as well as being extremely capable himself, there was nothing they could do but watch. However, it went without saying that they would still be delighted to make Toby the butt of their jokes. So, she was only left with one choice now.

Even though she was still thinking about it, Sonia took a deep breath and adjusted the ends of her clothes to walk to the chair to take a seat. As she turned around, she smiled at the man behind her. “Thank you, President Fuller.”

Toby smiled in response. “You’re welcome.” The moment he finished his sentence, he pulled out the chair beside her to sit down.

The waiter, who had remained quiet in the private room for the whole time, knew that Toby was hosting the dinner, so when he saw Toby sitting down, he immediately handed over the menu.

As Toby took the menu, he didn’t flip it open and instead passed it to Sonia. “What do you want to eat?”

Sonia felt embarrassed as she pushed the menu back to him and whispered, “I think you should order the meal. I’m fine with anything anyway.” It was already too much when you pulled the chair out for me, and now you want me to order the dishes? Are you kidding me?

Strictly speaking, how could she order ahead of everyone else when her status here was the lowest? It might have been fine if she was his wife, but the key point was she wasn’t married to him. So, even if Toby was the one who told her to order, she wouldn’t do as told. She knew that if she had really done it, although the CEOs never said anything, they would feel uncomfortable. That was the reason why she felt she should stay put and not do anything else.

When Toby saw how awkward Sonia was, he instantly knew the reason behind her behavior and picked up the menu again. “Okay, then I’ll do it.” After saying that, he flipped open the menu before he proceeded to order a couple of dishes.

His choices had only made Sonia raise her eyebrow to the max. Aren’t all these dishes... my favorites? She looked at Toby in surprise.