A Spoonful of Sugar: Don't Beg for Love

Chapter 93

"I'm not." He panicked. He wanted to explain himself but he didn't know what to say.

Hesper scoffed. "Yes, you're not trying to. All you're doing is making yourself feel less guilty by spending money because you know that you've wrongly accused me in the past. You knew they bullied me, so this is your way to feel better about yourself."

"No, that's not what I was doing." Rickard's brows were in a knot..

Hesper didn't give him a chance to explain. "Stop denying it. If you really feel sorry, let me ask you this, after exposing what Sophia and Juniper did, what did you do? I want you to punish them, but did you?" Rickard spoke. "I've given Sophia a stern warning so she will not do anything anymore. I grounded her too. As for Juniper, I've given an order that she can no longer visit our home." "That's it?" Hesper wasn't satisfied. She stood up and walked over to him. Her white bathrobe wasn't covering her fair and tender skin well enough, so it peeked through as she walked. Rickard was shocked to find that he was very nervous, but being someone with status, he didn't let it show. He sat there, unmoving; his eyes were like a hawk, locked on her body.

"Rickard, you're a powerful man. Is that all you can do when it comes to punishing someone? You weren't so nice to me."

She grabbed his hand and placed it on her left cheek then smiled a joyless smile. "This was where you slapped me. Have you forgotten?"

Rickard froze, the memories replaying in his mind. He was very brutal toward her.

"I'm sorry, it's all my fault. If you need to let out your anger, you can direct it at me, but..." He paused. He still had to care for his family. "Sophia is my sister and Juniper did all that because of me. You can do anything you want to me, but I hope you can let them off the hook." 1

Hesper laughed. See, he had compassion. However, this compassion wasn't shown to her.

"What if I say no? Are you going to hurt me again?"

Rickard quietly observed the woman before him. She had changed so much. The old Hesper wouldn't speak to him nor look at him that way, but now she was an elf of the night, fatal.

"I don't want to hurt you, but I can't let you do whatever you want. We should keep what happened to us between us, alright?"

"It's too late." She smiled. Rickard immediately knew that something was wrong. "What do you mean? What did you do?"

Hesper elegantly looked at her fingers and smiled eerily. "Don't worry, you'll find out soon. Isaac, walk Mr. Duval out." With that order, Isaac, who was hiding in the shadows, appeared.

"This way, sir."

Before he was thrown out, Rickard heard Hesper pick up her phone and said, "Nate, you finally called me back..."

The man's iris shrank. Nate?

So she had men other than Matthew? A curious feeling rushed toward Rickard's chest. It was a mixture of helplessness and jealousy.