Chapter 1026

"Yes, I'm certain!" Sonia nodded with a very serious expression, indicating that she had indeed learned enough, and she really didn't need him anymore.

At the sight of her confidence, Toby shook his head with a laugh. "All right. I'll leave it to you, then. Show me what you've learned."

He wanted to see if she really didn't need him anymore.

"Don't worry, I won't let you down." She smiled at him, then turned around and began to carve the rest of the pumpkin.

Seeing that she was no longer paying attention to him, Toby patted her head lightly, then walked away with his arms crossed and leaned against the wall.

Sonia turned and glowered at him. "What are you doing?"

"Nothing. I'm just teaching an ungrateful person a lesson," he replied with a shrug.

She shot him a glare. "Hey, who are you calling ungrateful?"

"I'm not wrong." Toby unfolded his arms and spread them outward. "I just finished teaching you, and you pushed me aside now that you don't have a use for me. If that isn't being ungrateful, what is it? Not only that, but you don't have a conscience either."

"You..." Sonia was rendered speechless by him as his words seemed to make sense.

It was true that she pushed him aside after she felt that she had learned enough, and it was ungrateful of her to do so. All of a sudden, Sonia felt so embarrassed that her face turned red.

tease her anymore. He stepped forward and gently caressed her hair, messing up her hair that she had painstakingly

her head huffily. "Go

He narrowed

her eyes at him. "If you still want to

Toby nodded. "A little."

finish carving it so that we can eat."

breath. "All right, I won't disrupt you anymore.

thought that it would be an easy process as she had learned how to do it, but for some reason, it was not as easy as she had imagined. At first, with Toby guiding her, her movements

as simple compared to when she had Toby helping her. With his help, the pumpkin was easily sliced away with the knife, but now that she was doing it alone, she clearly had to put in the effort to be able to cut the pumpkin off. In less than two minutes, she felt that

that she had suddenly gone motionless, and a glint flashed

moment

why did you stop?" The smile on Toby's

knife as she fell silent. Why did she stop? Of course it was

with a smile and

You knew I would end up like this a long time ago, right? That's why you asked me if I was

on the amount of strength or the skills you need to carve something. That's why I was sure

see." Sonia pouted unhappily, her gaze falling on his

carve off a piece of pumpkin, she asked again, "I could carve through the

holding your hand. Rather than you, it was me who was putting in the strength to carve the

wonder that when she was with Toby, she managed to carve the pumpkin so easily without facing any troubles. It was all because he was exerting his strength behind her back. To put it bluntly, he had been doing all the work from beginning to end, and what she thought she had learned was just Toby deliberately making her

"You must've been

Toby chuckled. "I wasn't."

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