A Spoonful of Sugar: Don't Beg for Love
Chapter 90

Chapter 90

Juniper stopped running and froze in place.

'That's right, Rickard might not believe in what I say, let alone stand up for me.'

"What the hell do you mean?"

"It's nothing. I only want to return all the pain that you inflicted on me back then to you." Hesper responded lightly, then continued. "Oh yeah, by the way, I might've forgotten to mention this to you. I made two copies of the recording from back then, one of which is already in Rickard's possession, and I guess he'll replace out about it soon. So please enlighten me, will he still think that you're his perfect damsel?" She gave off a smirk and then left.

Juniper's expression was on the verge of distorting. But after

listening to all that explanation, she did not dare to go to Rickard to explain herself.

'If he hasn't found out the truth behind the incident at all, wouldn't I be calling myself out?'

Back in the study.

Rickard ordered everyone not to come in.

'Hesper claimed that she had left a recording device here three years ago, so why didn't I see it all this while?'

He searched all the well-hidden corners but did not replace anything unusual, at least not until his gaze landed on the desk, and a pen that he had never used before finally caught his attention. Rickard's gaze was fixed on the pen. In the next second, he picked it up. Pinching the body of the pen tightly, he immediately felt that the

weight of the pen was a little off.

Sure enough, a voice recording device was found under the pen's cap.

Rickard pressed the play button, and the long-lost conversation

echoed in his ears.

Sophia's foretelling of the examination results, Juniper's various insinuations about Hesper, and his mother yelling at her for being a whore... The more Rickard heard, the more gloomy his expression became, until finally, he clenched his hands and slammed them heavily on the desk.

'I didn't tell anyone about Hesper's examination results at the hospital back then, but they were able to know the result in advance?'

Rickard, who had already gotten used to seeing and experiencing countless conspiracies and tricks before this, instantly understood what that meant, and his expression became extremely furious.

'Could it be that I really wronged her back then? Now that I think about it, the person who saved Hesper was Matthew. With his identity, it'd be impossible for him to take advantage of the life-threatening situation that others are in. Then what about the results of the physical examination? Is the so-called foreign fluid an unfounded lie, or was the doctor in it too? And I actually made her kneel in the rain for one whole day! I can't imagine what she was thinking at that time, and how much she hated me back then.'

Rickard suddenly understood what she meant when she said he would understand why she had rejected him as soon as he got to the bottom of the whole matter and realized just how much she had to suffer back then.

'If I was the one who got punished and tortured for no obvious reason, I'd never let the other party get away with it, not even if I needed to turn the whole world upside down in order to achieve that.

However, Hesper endured everything in silence; her explanations, her resentful exclamations, and her grievances were all ignored..."

Rickard had never felt so tired before.

'How could I manage to ignore all of them for three whole years? It's me... I'm at fault here. I'm the person who's wronged her.'

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

Benji rushed in and reported, "Mr. Duval, we've gotten to the bottom of the young lady's past."

"Bring it to me."

A few seconds later, Benji handed a stack of documents to Rickard and said in a distressed tone, "Mr. Duval, the young lady did leave the city with Matthew Lane back then, and Matthew then announced to the public that the young lady is the Lanes' long-lost daughter."

"After the young lady got into the Lanes, many of the younger family members in the Lanes didn't want to recognize her. The young lady had a very difficult life during her first year living with the Lanes." In the document, several major events were listed out and described

in detail.