Chapter 1294 He Fainted
Clearly, Toby was set on ruining the Lore Family. Harry went up to Toby anxiously. “Toby, you can’t do this! You are going to push me—your mentor—to the brink! Aren’t you afraid of gossip?” Eyes bulging, he confronted Toby loudly.
Toby, on the other hand, was calm as usual. “Why should I be afraid? If I had a fair and upright mentor who did not wrong his student, perhaps I would actually worry about people’s judgment of my actions. But sir, are you being fair and upright in the first place?” Harry’s eyes wavered, and he stumbled backward out of shock.
Toby scorned, “You did not display any qualities of a mentor. Not only that, you manipulated the relationship between your student and his partner. You allowed your grandchild to bully your student’s partner, without so much as an apology afterward. Are you still hoping that I will spare you after all those?”
Knowing well that this would spell the end to the Lore Family’s fortunes and realizing the impossibility of wooing Toby, Harry fainted and fell on his back in a fit of anger.
A frightened Lynette screamed at the sight, “Grandpa!”
Her scream made Toby stop to check on them. When he saw Harry on the floor, he hesitated momentarily before deciding against helping his ex-teacher. Instead, he asked the bodyguard at the door to send Harry to the hospital.
No matter what, he would never let Harry die at this point in time. Otherwise, things might get complicated.
Once Harry was lifted into the ambulance, Lynette, his only family member at the scene, followed him into the vehicle. Before that, she paused to glare at Toby with fury and resentment. “Toby, I won’t forgive you if anything happens to my grandpa.”
Then, she climbed into the ambulance with a heartbroken look.
Toby stood watching the ambulance speeding away without any change in his expression. Tom, who was standing behind him, rolled his eyes. “Oh, isn’t she hilarious? All that talk about her forgiveness, when the reality is that you don’t even care about her.”
For Toby, Lynette was a nobody, and he would not spare a thought for her. Lynette could only be best described as having an inflated sense of self-importance. She overestimated her importance to him.
“Alright. Let’s go,” Toby said and went into the hotel with Tom behind him.
When they arrived at the basement parking lot, Tom unlocked a car with a button on his key, and the headlights of a nearby Maybach flashed.
A drowsy Sonia, who had been waiting in the car, perked up when she heard the sound and checked the window. She smiled at the sight of the two tall figures walking toward her.
However, just when she opened the car door, a large and pale hand immediately pushed against the door to stop her. She blinked in confusion. “What’s the matter?”
Toby bent over and looked at her via the tiny opening. “Don’t get out of the car. It’s cold outside. Stay there. I’ll join you soon.”
He wanted to shut the car door, but she stopped him. “Wait!”
He paused and looked at her again. She beamed. “You don’t have to go around the car! Just enter from this side.”
After that, she moved across the seat to make space for him. Seeing that, he chuckled and obeyed.
Tom settled down in the driver’s seat. “President Fuller, are we going back to the Bayside Residence?”
“That’s too far from here. Let’s go to one of my units nearby.” Toby stared at an exhausted Sonia, who yawned out of sleepiness. Tom nodded at him and started the engine.
When Sonia let out a huge yawn, she was too tired to think and did not catch their conversation, which she did not care about in the first place. She was fine with any destination, as long as she was in their good care.
“Are you very tired?” he asked. “Mmhm,” she answered softly while nodding. Something in him stirred when he heard the tender voice, and his desire was awakened.
Swallowing hard, Toby put his arm across her shoulder and guided her to lean against his thighs. “If you’re sleepy, lie down and take a nap. I’ll wake you up when we arrive.”
“Sure.” She accepted his suggestion after a yawn, rested her upper body against his thighs, and closed her eyes.
He stared at her and, worried that the crown headpiece might be uncomfortable for her, he gently took it off. He was unaware that the headpiece helped to secure her hair, and once it was removed, her hair came cascading down like a waterfall and spread across his hand.
Sonia’s soft and silky hair was cold to the touch, and he started caressing it with much love. As if that was not enough, he even picked up strands of her hair and pressed them against his nose for a whiff. He picked up the crisp and enticing scent that stimulated his desire for her.
Unfortunately, they were in the car, with a third wheel in the driver’s seat. Toby regretfully suppressed his urge and went back to caressing her hair. His touch must have been too comfortable for her, as her eyelids became heavy.
Toby leaned over to give her a peck on her fair cheeks. “Go to sleep.” His soft and mesmerizing voice seemed to have a charm that lulled her to sleep.
“Is Miss Reed asleep?” Suddenly, Tom whispered. Toby took off his jacket and draped it across her. “Yes.”
Hearing that, Tom whispered with a lower voice, “What should I do with the two other families?”
Earlier, Toby had decided to deal with the two families along with the Lores. However, Harry’s fainting disrupted his plans, and he temporarily put the matter aside. Still, he had to deal with it eventually.
“Are they still at the hotel?” he asked calmly while admiring Sonia’s sleeping face.
Tom nodded. “Yes. After the two girls created trouble for you and Miss Read, we arrested them and informed their parents. They are with their parents now and waiting to meet you for an apology. In the meantime, the parents have already disciplined the girls.”
“Oh?” Toby looked amused, and his fingers stopped caressing Sonia’s face. “What happened?”
Tom chuckled. “The parents knew that the girls brought trouble to the families for offending the Toby Fuller for Lynette’s matter. So of course, they were incensed. They gave their daughters a good beating immediately after seeing them.”
