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.

her anymore. He stepped forward and gently caressed her hair, messing up her hair that she had painstakingly tidied earlier once more. "All right,

pushed his hand away from her head huffily. "Go

He narrowed his

you still want

Toby nodded. "A little."

it so that

breath. "All right, I

her head lowered. However, she had 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 were extremely smooth and

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 her arm was turning sore, just like how she had felt when she was carving before Toby came back. What's going on? Sonia's hands stopped in their tracks as she looked down at the carving knife

wall saw that she had suddenly gone motionless, and a glint flashed past his eyes as he asked with

moment later, she said

you stop?" The smile on Toby's face

around the knife as she fell silent. Why did

she had fallen silent and turned her head to look at her arm, Toby stepped forward with a smile and took the carving knife and pumpkin orchid from her. "All right, let me do it. Your

up like this a long time ago, right? That's

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

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

man gently carve off a piece of pumpkin, she asked again, "I could carve through the pumpkin easily when I

"Obviously, it's because I was guiding you in the beginning while holding your hand. Rather than you, it was me who was putting

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

"You must've been laughing at

Toby chuckled. "I wasn't."

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