This Time, I Will Get My Divorce, Mr novel Chapter 538

Chapter 538 Toby’s Bodyguards

“Right away,” Tom replied solemnly, then left to carry out Toby’s orders.

Presently, Sonia lifted her arm to glance at her watch and saw that it was drawing close to 4.30PM. Letting her arm fall back to her side, she was about to bid goodbye to Toby when he beat her to the chase. “Well, if you’re going to sign off on the factory, then you should probably get going now. Go straight home as soon as you’re done, or it won’t be safe after nightfall.”

“Okay,” she agreed, rising to her feet. “Ill be leaving now.”

 

Just then, he picked up his phone and stopped her. “Hold on. I’ll get someone to escort you back.”

“Oh, that won’t be necessary. I can drive,” Sonia said, turning him down with a cursory wave of her hand.

He looked at her gravely and pointed out, “I think it’s entirely necessary. I don’t like the idea of leaving you on your own; who knows if Tina will ambush you along the way?”

Upon hearing this, Sonia fell silent, and she pictured herself driving along the way and running into Tina. She’d probably step on the gas and crash into my car, then hope that the impact would be enough to kill me.

Sonia shuddered at the eerie thought of this and decided to take up Toby’s offer. Bowing her head in polite gratitude, she said, “Thank you.”

He nodded once, then sent out instructions through his phone. After that, he set his phone aside and announced, “Done. You can head down to the lobby now; the team I’ve arranged to escort you will be waiting for you there.”

 

She gave a small nod. “Okay. I’ll get going now, then.”

Toby gave a casual flap of his hand to dismiss her. “Go on.”

With one last glance at his bandaged ankle and a gentle reminder that he should keep the area dry, Sonia slung her purse over her shoulder and walked out of his office.

As she stepped out of the elevator and into the lobby, she indeed came upon the men whom Toby had arranged to escort her. These men were uniformed bodyguards who towered over her and boasted strong, bulky physiques, attributes that instantly made her feel a sense of security.

That being said, what surprised Sonia the most was not the bodyguards’ physiques, but the way they intended to escort her. She would be driving back with one of their cars tailing her and the other in front of her.

She had believed that Toby would want the bodyguards to be in her car while escorting her back, but as it turned out, he had thought differently.

Now that she looked at it, an arrangement like this was for the best in terms of security. With two cars escorting her, Tina would not be able to reenact her murderous scheme from earlier that afternoon, at least not without crashing first into either one of the bodyguards’ cars.

Warmth coursed through Sonia as she smiled to herself, a little surprised by Toby’s foresight in planning all this.

She suddenly realized how much attention to detail Toby paid to whatever he did or intended to do.

At the entrance of the newly built factory, Charles flicked his cigarette butt away when he saw Sonia’s familiar red car draw near and accused, “Took you a while to finally get here, baby,”

Sonia got down from the car and flashed him a quick, apologetic smile. “Sorry to keep you waiting, Charles.”

“Nah, don’t worry about it. I’ve only been here for half an hour,” he said with a grin. Then, he noticed the two cars that had escorted Sonia back and asked curiously, “Hey, what’s going on here, baby? Who are these people?”

She was being frank as she pointed at the other two cars and explained, “Those are Toby’s cars, and the ones driving them are Toby’s bodyguards.”

“And why did his bodyguards follow you here?” Charles pressed, frowning.

They pulled up at Bayside Residence half an hour later, and the bodyguards who had done their job bade Sonia goodbye before leaving in their respective cars.

Watching their cars drive into the distance, Charles rubbed his chin pensively and pointed out, “To be honest, baby, I think you should hire a couple of bodyguards to follow you around at all times like those two did, seeing as Tina is still lurking in the shadows and probably getting ready to ambush you.”

Sonia did not object to his suggestion and merely laughed good-naturedly. “I’ll consider doing just that.”

Then, she opened her side of the door and got down from the car while Charles followed suit.

She rounded the front of the car and walked up to the passenger’s side where Charles was standing, then said, “Why don’t you take the car tonight and pick me up here tomorrow morning? There’s a meeting at Paradigm Co. tomorrow that you could sit in for.”

“Okay,” he answered readily with a grin, then walked over to the driver’s side of the car jauntily.

Having done so, he held the door open and waved goodbye at Sonia. “Guess I’ll be leaving then, baby.”

She hummed in response, but just as Charles was about to duck into the car, she suddenly thought of something and spun around to call out to him, “Hey, wait a minute, Charles!”

“What’s wrong?” Charles was already halfway behind the steering wheel when he heard her and ducked out from the car.

Toby’s words echoed in Sonia’s mind, and she parted her red lips as she stammered, “Uh… Charles, do you think you could maybe stop calling me ‘baby’ from now on?” She found herself agreeing with Toby that the term of endearment was far too intimate to be appropriate for a friendship like hers and Charles’.

The grin on Charles’ face slipped when he heard this, and he demanded in bewilderment, “Did you just ask me to stop calling you ‘baby’?”

“Yes” she replied with a firm nod.

“But why?” He slammed the car door shut and closed the distance between them with a couple of long strides, seeking an explanation from her.

She looked up at him and said, “Because I don’t think it’s appropriate.”

Confusion dawned upon him. “How is it not appropriate?”