Something Bad Happened
As expected, Sonia knew that Toby would contact her.
Since he had already gotten someone to send these gifts over, he would surely want to make sure that
his gifts were appropriate.
At that thought, she answered the call without any hesitation. “Hello?”
“Did you see the gifts?” The man’s magnetic voice rang out from the other end of the call.
Just then, Sonia sat down on the single-seated couch and stared at the gift bags in front of her before
smiling and nodding. “I did.”
“Do you think my gifts are appropriate? Do I still need to prepare more?” Toby, who was sitting on a
vintage sandalwood chair in the manor, straightened his back and asked.
Sonia felt her mouth twitching a little. “More? Please don’t.”
“Why?”
“Are you seriously asking why?” she cried out. “Are you planning to scare them off by preparing so
many gifts?”
“Is it too much?” Toby tilted his head a little. It was obvious that he didn’t feel like he had prepared a lot.
Sonia rolled her eyes. “To you, it might not be a lot, but to people like us, it’s just too much. It’s only
your first time visiting, so you shouldn’t need to prepare so much. Just one for each of them is already
enough. Nevertheless, they will still be happy to receive your gifts.”
After all, anyone would be happy to receive estate-bottled wine and the latest makeup products that
hadn’t been released yet.
Hearing her reply, Toby chuckled. “It’s fine. These aren’t much anyway. Didn’t you say that I should
treat them like my own parents? If that’s the case, I can’t just simply prepare my gifts for them.”
“I did say that… but these are too lavish.” Sonia frowned, but Toby shook his head. “It’s not since I have
the financial capability to do so. Besides, I’d naturally give them the best of the best to thank them for
taking care of you since they treated you so well.”
She was taken aback by his reply. “Are you saying that you did all these to express your gratitude?”
“Yes.” Toby nodded. “They deserve it, after all. If you only treat them as your elders, and they’re only
alright to you, I won’t put in so much effort to prepare these gifts. Instead, I could have just prepared
them gifts that I usually give others. However, since you’ve mentioned that you guys are close because
you treat them as your own parents, and they treat you like a daughter, I can’t be perfunctory as your
man. Doing so will make it look like you’re not important to me. I’m preparing all these gifts to let the
Lane couple know that I’m willing to spend my all to make them happy for you, which indirectly shows
how much I love you, and that you didn’t make a wrong decision to get back together with me.”
He was willing to spend all this money because Sonia was important to her.
Although it sounded superficial, being willing to spend for a partner was a great implication of how
much the person valued their significant other, and that was the truth.
Nonetheless, Sonia didn’t expect the real reason why Toby prepared so many gifts was because of her.
This made her feel warm and giddy all over.
“I see. I guess we will go with these gifts since you’ve already prepared them.” Sonia’s voice took a
gentle turn.
Initially, she was planning to get Toby to take some of the gifts back as one gift per person was enough.
However, she had decided that it didn’t matter.
Since he’s doing this to express his gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Lane for taking care of me and wants
them to know that he really cares about me, I can’t disregard his good intentions, can I?
Upon hearing Sonia’s reply, the corners of Toby’s lips curled up. “The gifts are alright, aren’t they?”
“Yes, they are.” Sonia nodded. “If these gifts are problematic, it would be an insult for other gifters.”
Toby chuckled. “That’s good to know. I’ll come over to pick you up at 7.00PM tonight.”
Sonia hummed in acknowledgment. “Alright. I’ll be waiting for you in the lobby. By the way, are you still
at Grandma’s place?”
“Yeah.” Toby nodded. “Grandma is taking an afternoon nap right now, so I’m waiting for her to wake
up.”
“I see. I thought that you have already returned to Fuller Group.” Sonia reached out for the teapot on
her coffee table before pouring herself a cup of tea.
The tea had already gone cold, and it tasted slightly bitter.
Sonia placed the cup back onto the table with a frown and didn’t drink from it anymore.
“I’m not returning to the Fuller Group today. I’ll head to Paradigm Co. to pick you up after my discussion
with Grandma,” Toby replied gently while Sonia smiled. “Well, since Grandma is not awake yet, why
don’t I accompany you if you’re bored?”
Immediately, Toby straightened his back, and his gaze brightened. “Sure!”
He’d be a fool to reject Sonia, who offered to accompany him.
Noticing the excitement and happiness in the man’s voice, Sonia couldn’t help but laugh.
The two of them continued chatting about everything from the gifts to worrying job matters before they
started gossiping about Charles and Daphne.
Nevertheless, Sonia was mostly the one doing the talking while Toby listened and chimed in to give
some suggestions occasionally.
Unknowingly, they had already been on call for about two hours, and the time now was 5.00 PM.
Sonia had barely gotten any job done in her office during the entire noon as she had been consoling
Daphne and talking to Toby.
Staring at her desk piled up with documents, she felt like crying at the thought that there would be more
documents on her desk tomorrow.
Nevertheless, she didn’t regret talking to Toby for the entire noon and disregarding her job as none of
these documents were urgent or important.
If that wasn’t the case, she wouldn’t have spoken to Toby on the phone for so long as she still had her
priorities well sorted.
“President Reed.” Right then, the door to her office was opened, and one of Daphne’s assistants
appeared at the entrance of her office with an anxious look. “Something bad happened.”
Seeing how anxious the assistant looked and the fact that they didn’t even bother knocking, Sonia
knew that something really bad must have happened.
Immediately, she couldn’t care less about Toby anymore as she placed her phone down and asked with
a stern expression, “What happened?”
The assistant huffed for air to calm himself down before quickly replying, “The factory that we are
working with said that the supplies that we ordered got stolen by another party.”
“What?!” Sonia stood up abruptly. “Who did it?”
Although Toby couldn’t hear the assistant’s voice clearly from the other end of the call, he could still
vaguely hear Sonia’s voice.
Upon sensing the shock and disbelief in her voice, he frowned. “Sonia, what happened?”
Nevertheless, Sonia didn’t answer him as she had already placed her phone on her desk and couldn’t
hear him.
Then, she moved away from her desk and headed to the assistant. “How could it get stolen? We
customized those supplies and paid a deposit. All that’s left is the final payment after getting our
supplies. Our company’s logo had been literally printed on those supplies, so who would take them
away? What about the factory? How dare they give away our supplies when we already signed a
contract with them?”
The assistant smiled wryly. “They really did it, though. Just now, we received a call from the factory
saying that they had already shipped our supplies to the other party. They knew that they were in the
wrong for breaking the contract and are willing to pay double for our liquidated damages.”
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