The words ‘inheritance’ and ‘takeover’ reminded her of scenes in drama series where influential families had family heirlooms given to the son or the family's daughter-in-law. That’s probably this bangle's purpose.
After all, scenes in drama series were based on real-life stories. The Fullers were influential, so it wouldn’t be surprising if they had a family heirloom that was inherited by the son or the daughter-in-law of the family.
Nevertheless, Sonia had no plans to share her thoughts with Toby, as he had already mentioned that Rose would explain the bangle’s meaning at the hospital later. Besides, it would be awkward if the honest answer wasn’t what she was expecting.
Those who didn’t know might even think that she was hoping to inherit a family heirloom from the Fullers, so it was better if she didn’t say anything.
In a blink of an eye, Toby and Sonia reached the hospital. After Toby parked the car, the car door was opened by Tom. It was obvious that Tom was positioned there to pick them up.
“President Fuller, Miss Reed,” he greeted after the two of them got out of the car.
While Toby didn’t reply to Tom, Sonia smiled at him as an acknowledgment. After that, Tom motioned for them to go ahead. “President Fuller, Miss Reed, Old Mrs. Fuller had instructed me to bring the both of you over to her room.”
“Alright. Thank you, Tom.” Sonia smiled politely.
“You’re welcome.” Tom adjusted his glasses and walked ahead of them to lead the way.
However, Toby frowned when he saw the direction where Tom was leading them to. “This isn’t the way to Grandma’s room.”
“It isn’t?” Sonia was shocked while Tom smiled before replying, “Indeed, it is not. Old Mrs. Fuller complained that her previous room was too noisy, as there was a noisy kid that stayed in the room next to hers, so she requested me to arrange a new room for her. We are heading to her new room now.”
“I see,” Sonia commented while Toby nodded slightly and said nothing.
Then, the three of them headed to another hospital building for hospital wards. There were VIP wards in this building as well, and Rose was currently staying in one of them.
As Tom brought Sonia and Toby to the area outside of Rose’s ward, they could clearly see what was happening in the ward through the glass window on the door entrance of the ward.
When Sonia saw Rose sitting on her bed while having a conversation with Mary, she smiled. “Looks like Grandma is in a good mood today.”
Toby agreed. “Indeed. Let’s go in now.”
Upon hearing that, Tom reached out to open the door to the ward for Toby and Sonia to enter.
When Rose and Mary saw the couple who came in hand-in-hand, they gave each other a look before smiling with gratification.
“Young Master Toby, Miss Reed, you guys are finally here,” Mary stood up before greeting them cheerfully.
“Grandma, Mary.” Sensing Rose and Mary’s gaze on her and Toby’s intertwined hands, she felt somewhat embarrassed and wanted to pull away from Toby.
Nevertheless, Toby tightened his grip on her hand as if he had already predicted that this would happen, not giving her the opportunity to retract her hand.
Right then, Sonia couldn’t help but turn around and glare at him before signaling for him to let go, as Rose and Mary were still watching them. Still, Toby was unbothered as he pulled her toward the hospital bed nonchalantly. He didn’t care if other people saw them holding hands.
When they were in front of Rose’s bed, Toby didn’t shy away from Rose and Mary but raised their intertwined hands up so that they would take a closer look.
At that moment, it was already too late for Sonia to pull away from him. After all, it’d be rude and disrespectful for her to fight Toby off in front of Rose and Mary. Even if they liked her, they’d probably feel uncomfortable if they saw her doing that. Thus, Sonia had no choice but to turn toward Rose and Mary with a forced smile on her face. She still hadn’t thought of a way to face the two elders as Toby’s girlfriend again, but Toby had forced her to the edge of a cliff right then.
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