Clang!
Now that the office door was closed, the room instantly fell silent. Sonia then gazed at her hands that Toby had grabbed before she coldly said, "President Fuller, Charles has been taken out. Can you let me go now?"
He released his grip on her with a nod. Since her hands were freed, she immediately took two steps back to distance herself from him.
"President Fuller, what exactly do you want to say to me?"
As he looked at her in all seriousness, he replied, “I wasn’t fooling you when I told you about all those things the last time at Bayside Residence. It’s all true; the person whom I love is not Tina but you!"
Sonia was silent for a few seconds before she gave a mock laugh. "President Fuller, what do I have that is worthy of your heart? Not only do you still want to lie to me, but you even joined forces with your grandmother to lie to me? "
Upon seeing that she was still unwilling to believe his own sincerity, Toby sighed. "Do you still remember John?"
When she heard the name, Sonia's expression changed slightly. “How do you know John?”
She really is the real Maple! Then, Toby's eyebrows softened as he lightly opened his thin lips and replied, "John Johann is my other name. Many years ago, I took my mother's last name Johann and she used to call me John!"
"Y-You..." Upon hearing his words, she pointed at him as her eyes widened in disbelief. She finally came to the realization that he was her long-
time pen pal, John!
As if Toby seemed to know what Sonia wanted to say, he gently put her hand down. "I'm the John whom you're thinking of, Maple!"
Now that he had called out her pen pal name, Sonia could no longer deny that he was not her pen pal. She merely found it difficult to accept the truth.
"How could it be you?" Sonia bit her lip, feeling that everything was so ridiculous. "Why would you be John?"
That gentle boy who would comfort her with letters whenever she was bullied by her stepmother and when she was unhappy was actually Toby!
"Why can't it be me?" Toby frowned slightly and asked, "Or, are you disappointed that John is
actually me?"
He could tell that she looked disappointed when she confirmed that he was John. She actually did not want him to be John!
Now that he saw his reaction, his heart was slightly constricted with pain. He initially came to her with the excitement to tell her that they were pen pals; he even thought that she would be happy to know that he was John since they were once so close. He never expected her to react in this manner!
Maybe she wasn't unhappy to see John; it’s just that she did not want to accept that he was John. If another person was John, she would not have reacted like this.
When Toby thought about that, he couldn’t help but clench his fists as the cold aura emanated from him.
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