A Spoonful of Sugar: Don't Beg for Love
Chapter 69

Chapter 69

"You..."

"Let me guess, do you wish to know how I'd know what to do?"

Hesper did not say anything and only gazed at the man sitting across from her with her cold eyes.

'Even after three years, he still thinks so highly of himself. Seeing him again really upsets me!'

Rickard lifted the corners of his lips and let off a smirk. "Before I

departed here to meet you, I had already reviewed our proposal and tried to perfect it. And it's always advisable to prepare ourselves for everything in the business field, isn't it?" Hesper understood.

'He's saying that he already suspected that we from Lane Holdings would make his life difficult on purpose, so he prepared himself for this outcome in advance.'

Rickard looked at her displeased look, and a faint hint of hilarity

flashed across his eyes. "Ms. Lane, you're still young. You still have a lot to learn."

Benji, who was standing at the side, wiped the sweat on his forehead.

'Mr. Duval, you spent so much time looking for her all over the world throughout the past three years. Now that she's standing right in front of you, why are you acting so arrogantly? Is this really the right. thing to do?'

Hesper snorted lightly as if she did not care much about it. "In that case, please start to arrange for the project to start as soon as possible. The official opening of the branch is just around the corner, and there's not much time left for your party to complete the project."

After saying so, she got up and was about to leave.

"Wait!" Rickard pulled her back.

Before Hesper could make any move, the bodyguards who came with her immediately stepped forward, looking extremely deterrent.

Benji hurried forward and tried to smooth things over. "Guys, please don't get his action wrong. Mr. Duval and Ms. Lane are old friends; they're just catching up."

Rickard walked up to Hesper and stared at her silently. "Let's talk."

"What's there to talk about?" Hesper rejected him directly.

However, in the next second, Rickard grabbed her wrist and pulled her out of the room.

"Ms. Lane!" The bodyguards dashed forward and were about to follow them out of the room.

But Benji stood in their way deliberately and tried to stop them. "It's okay, it's okay. There are too many people here; they'll just talk alone."

"Get out of our way!" The leader of the group of bodyguards, Isaac Lennon, glared at him exasperatedly and was about to make a move

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However, Benji signaled the bodyguards behind him with his gaze, and those men strode forward immediately to help him out. The room fell into pure chaos almost instantly.

Benji took advantage of the mayhem to leave the scene and stopped outside the door to catch his breath.

"Mr. Duval, I've tried my best to delay those men for you. It's all up to you now..."

"Where are you taking me to!" In the hallway, Hesper struggled with every single fiber of her being.

But the man's grip on her arm got tighter and tighter, and she was starting to feel a dull pain in her wrist.

Out of the blue, Rickard stopped abruptly, and before Hesper had time to react to that, he grasped her hand, raised it above her head, and pinned it against the wall.

"Now tell me, where have you been these few years? How did you become the person in charge of Lane Holdings?"

He lowered his head, and his warm breath brushed against Hesper's neck, creating a somewhat charming aura for no reason.

Hesper became annoyed from the embarrassment and uttered the most hurtful things that she had on top of her mind.

"It's none of your business, isn't it? We're already divorced, and you have nothing to do with me. Where I go and what happened to me all this while are all my personal affairs."

"Hesper Rivera!" Rickard said in a low voice, "When I ask you a question, just give me the truth directly. Don't ever challenge my patience."

"Pfft." She gave off a disdainful smirk. “You really haven't changed at all, Mr. Duval, you're still as arrogant as you were three years ago. If you think you're capable of holding me here, I dare you to continue to pester me. My bodyguards will catch up to us any moment now. So be my guest if you're not afraid of being embarrassed in front of more people!"