Chapter 444
Chapter 444
Hesper did not go light with the stomp, so Rickard let go of her and frowned, while Hesper immediately
ran to the side and started taking in gasps of fresh air.
Although Hesper and Rickard had had a child together, Hesper’s recollection of what happened that
night was still rather vague, and nothing intimate had happened between the two of them after
marriage. Theoretically speaking, this was the closest she had ever gotten to him as far as she could
remember.
Hesper could hear that her heartbeat was chaotic and took a few deep breaths before ring at
Rickard, who looked as calm as a toad in the sun.
“Have you lost your mind? Are you even Rickard Duval?”
Her hair was a little messed up.
Rickard was in a daze thinking that the distance between the two of them was actually not that far
away, but it was still a lot fartherpared to the distance between them when they were about to kiss
a while before.
Hesper saw that Rickard was staring at her without saying anything, almost to the extent thatsers
were going to shoot out of his eyes.
“Rickard?”
Rickard came back to his senses and lowered his gaze. There was still no expression on his face, but
Hesper could still see in the dim light that he seemed a little aggrieved.
“I don’t like it… When you get so close to him.”
Hesper was at a loss for words.
“I don’t like the way you say you like him, even if I know it’s a lie. Hesper, please don’t piss me off on
purpose.” Rickard’s voice sounded very soft and deep.
He had always been very confident and stubborn. Hesper felt that she had made things very clear to
him, apart from the fact that she did not really like Pennleigh. It was not because she still had a thing
for Rickard but just that she did not feel the need to fall in love.
She had wasted her whole youth and her purity in an illusory love, so there was no need for her to
repeat the same mistakes.
Hesper lowered her head. “There’s no need for you to say so many things to me, Rickard. If you really
love me, just give Renfrew back to me. He’s all I want.”
Rickard was speechless for a moment, then said, “That’s a big no for me.”
The ambiguous atmosphere had dissipated long ago. Hesper already knew the response that Rickard
would give her, so she took a step aside as calmness returned to her gaze and flooded her eyes. “Mr.
Duval, you’ve been out here for too long. You should go back now.”
“Hesper.” Rickard stretched out his hand to grab Hesper’s arm again. “I want to keep Renfrew by my
side, hoping that he can hold you back so that you won’t stray too far.”
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Chapter 444
Rickard had never uttered such gentle words. A hint ofplexity shed across Hesper’s eyes for a
split second, but she still pulled her arm out of his grip.
“Mr. Duval, please show some self-respect. We have nothing to do with each other now, and I already
have a boyfriend.”
On the other side, Pennleigh had searched around the manor but still could not find Hesper anywhere
else. Thinking that he heard Hesper’s voice in the garden just now but no one responded to him, he
guessed that Rickard might have found Hesper before he did.
Going back to where he started, he saw Hesper and Rickard standing next to each other.
Hesper’s expression was inconspicuous, and Rickard had never been someone who would let his
emotions surface, so Pennleigh had no way to deduce what had happened before he arrived there.
“Mr. Pi… Penn, let’s go.”
Hesper walked up to Pennleigh, held his hand, and stopped looking at Rickard. While Pennleigh looked
back at Rickard provocatively and then turned around. “My mother just asked if you have any favorite
dessert. Do you like blueberries?”
“Ah, is it too sour? It seems to be…”
The two of them drifted away, and Rickard rubbed the tip of his index finger as if it still retained the
warmth that he felt on Hesper.
“Hesper…”