Chapter 1030

Sonia was silent for a while. "Yeah. Maybe I was too hung up on that. I was drowning in their comments for years. It has stopped now, but it left a mark. I just couldn't bmsh it off."

"And now you can." Toby patted her head.

"Yeah, now I can. You talked me through it. If I still can't brush it off, I might kill off our relationship eventually."

"Don't say that." He frowned in displeasure and put his finger against her lips.

She took his hand away in amusement. "Lighten up. It's just a joke. Don't be so uptight about it. I didn't say anything that bad."

"But you mentioned 'killing our relationship'. That's bad enough," he said solemnly. "It's not a good word. I want us to be safe and sound." The last time she fell down a cliff left a traumatic impression on him. He had thought he lost her. From then on, he refused to let her risk her life, or he might do something really drastic just to save her.

"Alright, alright. I'll stop." Sonia noticed how much he was frowning. She knew he cared a lot about this, and she wouldn't challenge him. Going with the flow was the best thing to do now.

burden. We don't need that negativity in our lives.

leaned against his chest. Sonia said nothing, but

you? I know you still won't do that, since you have your reason to settle this yourself, but you know you don't have

what Brian and Charles told her in the hotel. She shook her head. "I... Yeah, I know." She didn't know much about the business world or how to survive in it. Sonia was just a newbie, and she had no organization to call her own, nor did she have any connections. They were important elements to survival in business, but she had none of it. There was

surprised that she would admit her

pouted unhappily. "What? Surprised I'd

a stubborn woman who'd push herself to the

to face reality. I can't deal with it on

to do it, and I support it, but you need to at least have enough strength and a big enough team to deal with your problems without my help. However, you still have some way to go before you can stand on your own, and yet you hide things from me. That's just pushing yourself, and it'll only make things worse, you

now. I'll only make it worse." Brian and Charles had told her that as well.

tell me then?" He pretended to look serious. "You'd rather ask Charles

asked Charles to

for

"Yeah."

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