Toby blinked before he grunted.
When he exited the elevator earlier, he already felt a sense of dizziness and figured that he could be running a temperature.
However, he suddenly wanted to see her, so he didn’t give it much thought.
Sonia lowered her hand and extended it toward Toby.
He merely looked at her. “What do you want?”
“Your phone.” She frowned in frustration. “Give it to me. I’ll help you to ring the Fullers so that they can send someone over to bring you home.”
“No need.” He pouted as he declined the offer.
She chuckled. “Huh, do you think you can drive home on your own?”
Toby’s thin lips moved, but he didn’t say anything.
Sonia could feel the onset of a headache. “You don’t want anyone coming over to fetch you, but you can’t drive home on your own. What are you trying to—hey!”
Before she could even finish her sentence, the man lost his grip on the door frame before his towering body fell in her direction.
Toby fell right on top of Sonia and his weight nearly crushed her.
“Hey, how shameless can you be? Falling on me like that… Come on, get up.” Sonia pushed the man on top of her.
However, he didn’t even respond.
Sonia turned to look and she realized that his eyes were closed. It was obvious that he had passed out. “You’re kidding me, right? How are you so weak?” She couldn’t believe what she saw.
It was extremely arduous to imagine such a big guy passing out from some fever.
Sonia sighed as she suppressed her urge to leave the man outside to die. Then, she helped him into the house.
Once they were in the living room, she threw the man onto the couch with all her might.
The moment his back came into contact with the couch, he suddenly groaned before his eyebrows scrunched up tightly, but he didn’t regain consciousness.
“Huh?” Sonia was momentarily stunned. Did I hurt him somehow?
She didn’t give it much thought as she fished for Toby’s phone in his pocket. Her intention was to contact Tom to take Toby home.
However, Toby hadn’t registered his fingerprint on his phone, so the device was instead locked with a passcode.
Sonia didn’t know what his passcode was, so she casually tried a few combinations. She tried Toby’s birth date before using Tina’s anniversary but to no avail.
In the end, Sonia surrendered and took out her phone instead. Then, she made a call and asked for a doctor to come over.
No matter what, since Toby had passed out at her place, if she didn’t call a doctor to treat him, she would be held responsible should Toby’s fever be so high that it caused brain damage.
After the call, Sonia kept aside her phone and stared at Toby’s wet hair and shoulder for a while. She thought that his fever would worsen if he was in those damp clothes, so she helped him to undress after a sigh.
She sometimes really despised her soft heart, but it couldn’t be helped; she couldn’t just ignore something that happened right in front of her eyes.
“Huh?” Sonia had just unbuttoned Toby’s shirt when she looked up and noticed a crimson patch on his right shoulder.
Her eyes narrowed as she started to guess something before she forcefully turned his body over. After that, she was dumbfounded as she drew in a sharp breath while covering her mouth with her hand.
Oh my, the crimson patch has almost entirely covered his back and it’s a ghastly sight to behold.
That patch was caused by the blood capillaries under his skin rupturing as a result of a huge impact.
No wonder he groaned when I tossed him on the couch. I’m afraid his fever might have been caused by this injury and combined with being drenched under the rain, he finally collapsed.
Sonia’s hand trembled as she gingerly touched Toby’s back.
She finally understood how he had sustained the injury—it was when he saved her that day. It wasn’t in front of the hotel elevator, but rather when Tina pushed her at the hospital stairwell.
So, he had suffered a grave injury, but didn’t say anything when she asked him about it.
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