Toby’s Concern
Anya froze in shock as she stared dazedly at Connor. It never crossed her mind that Connor would
want to keep her in here for the sake of teaching her a lesson!
“M-Mr. Salzburg, you can’t! You can’t!”
She snapped out of her daze after some time and began to plead, her bulging eyes fixed on Connor.
“Mr. Salzburg, I beg you, please don’t leave me here. I’ve really learned my lesson, and I will never
go against your word ever again, I promise! So please save me from here. Please get me out of
here!”
Connor remained stoic despite the sound of Anya’s pleading echoing across the room.
He got up with the help of his walking cane and walked away without even taking another look at
Anya, who was still cuffed to her wheelchair. As he made his way toward the door, he said without
turning around, “Like I said, if you made a mistake, then you should bear the consequences. You
went behind my back, but I’m already being merciful by letting you stay here. You should be thankful
for the fact that I still have a use for you, because otherwise, Toby won’t even have the chance to
mess with you when you’re in prison. I will do it myself, and I’ll get someone to make sure that you
snuff out in prison!”
His words silenced all of her pleading. She stared after him, her face stricken with terror and her body
trembling violently.
He actually wanted her to die!
Of course he did. A miserable old conniving git like him would not keep someone around if they were
of no use to him. She should be thanking her lucky stars that he still found her useful enough to not
take her life just yet. At the same time, she was also clear now. As soon as he got what he wanted,
then she would no longer be useful to him, and she would not be able to escape from his grasp. It
meant that he was never going to let her get away with causing trouble for him. It was only a matter
of time before she got her punishment.
Anya shuddered at the thought of this. There was no point in her begging for his help anymore, since
he would never agree. In fact, she was beginning to fear that her pleading might only serve to make
him angrier. If he lost all patience with her, then he might just get rid of her immediately. It would be
too late for her to do anything then.
She simply had to put up with it for now. She was able to survive two months of torture at the mental
asylum anyway, and it was unlikely that she would have to spend more than two months locked up in
here!
Anya finally quietened down. She lowered her head and made no response.
Connor felt a little surprised that she settled down and stopped making a fuss. Soon enough, he
smirked. “Seems like you’re behaving yourself now once you’ve realized the predicament you’re in.
Not bad. It’s a good sign, so keep it up.”
Once he said that, he left the room along with Xander.
Only then did Anya lift her bloodshot eyes and stared at the exit. She gritted her teeth and snarled,
“You old git, just you wait and see! You can threaten me now because you have something on me,
but when I get my hands on something that I can use against you, I’m going to destroy you
immediately!”
Connor walked out of the police station without the faintest idea of Anya’s resentment toward him.
Once he got in the car, he closed his eyes and began to massage his temples.
Xander buckled up in his seat and turned around to ask, “Sir, are we heading back to the hotel now?”
Connor’s eyes were filled with an indiscernible emotion when he reopened them. “Still no news on
where Valerie’s grave is?”
Immediately, Xander lowered his head and could not look Connor in the eye. “I’m so sorry, sir, but no.
The Fullers hid the location of Ms. Johann’s grave very carefully, and it seems like no one has visited
her all these years. We haven’t been able to find out where she was buried, and I think our only
option is to ask the Fullers. But even so, only two people in the family know where she’s buried—
Toby Fuller and Old Mrs. Fuller.”
The second wife, Jean White, and the younger son, Tyler, probably had no idea where the grave was
either.
Connor stayed silent, fidgeting with the ring on his finger as he became lost in his thoughts. Finally,
he stopped toying with it and waved his hand. “Drive back to the hotel.”
“Yes, sir.” Xander started the engine.
In the meantime, at Bayside Residence.
Toby abandoned his meeting that was halfway through and left behind a room full of disgruntled
executives. He sped straight over to Sonia’s apartment and dashed into the living room without
removing his shoes, leaving a trail of dirty tracks behind him.
When Sonia heard the commotion, she leapt off the couch and stared at the entrance in alarm.
However, when she saw Toby’s flurried arrival, she called out with a smile, “Toby…”
She could not even finish her sentence before Toby flashed across the room to appear right in front of
her, and he swept her up into a fierce embrace. It was almost as if he thought that she would
disappear the moment he let go.
Sonia could feel the anxiety emanating from him, and her smile was slowly replaced with a
concerned expression.
She reached out and gently patted him on the back as she asked softly, “What’s the matter? Why are
you in such a frenzy?”
When Toby heard her voice, he slowly came out of his anxiety. He loosened the hug a little and
looked down at her. Instead of responding to her, he asked, “Are you alright? Did Connor Salzburg do
anything to you?”
His hands moved to her shoulders and he began to look all over her to see if she was hurt in any
way.
He was worried that she might have been harmed during her meeting with Connor. When Sonia
realized that she was the reason for his agitated state, her heart grew warm.
She took his hands off her shoulders and held them in her hands as she shook her head. “Nothing
happened. I’m fine, don’t worry. I was a little worried that Connor and his assistant might do
something to me at first, but in the end, they didn’t. We just had a conversation and they left right
after.”
Now that he was sure she was okay, Toby heaved a sigh of relief. He pulled her into his arms again.
“Thank goodness. You have no idea how worried I was when I heard you say that Connor Salzburg
came looking for you. I was so anxious that I rushed over right away.”
Sonia blinked in realization. “So that’s why the call ended so abruptly when I told you that Connor
came to see me. It’s not because your phone ran out of battery, but instead, it’s because you hung up
the phone?”
When Connor left, Sonia headed back to her apartment and called Toby to let him know that Connor
came to see her. However, as soon as she said that, that call abruptly ended. It had been very
sudden, so she assumed that Toby’s phone must have coincidentally ran out of battery.
It turned out that he was the one who ended the call.
“Yeah, I did.” Toby nodded. “When I heard that Connor came looking for you, I got so worried that I
ended the call and rushed over to see you.”
“But what about your work?” Sonia stared at him.
Toby stroked her hair and declared, “To me, your safety is far more important than work.”
Sonia’s face turned red.
Toby pulled her over to the couch and took a seat before moving on to the matter at hand. “What did
Connor say when he came to see you?”
“He offered to give me anything I wanted in exchange for letting Anya go free,” Sonia replied.
Toby piped in confidently, “But you didn’t agree.”
Sonia shook her head. “Of course I didn’t agree. It’s impossible that I would. If I agreed, then wouldn’t
it imply that I was afraid of him? Wouldn’t that make me seem like a doormat? So no matter what, I
would never agree. Not only did I not agree to his condition, but I even made a fool out of him.”
She started laughing once she mentioned it to Toby.
Toby’s brows creased a little. “Made a fool out of him?”
“Yup.” Sonia nodded.
“How did you make a fool out of him?” Toby looked at her.
Sonia had a slight pout as she said, “He wanted me to forgive Anya, but I didn’t agree, so he made
me an offer and said that I could ask for anything that I wanted. I asked him to give me Salzburg
Group, and he immediately changed his tune with me. Isn’t that hilarious?”
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