A Spoonful of Sugar: Don't Beg for Love novel 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 glaring 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 farther compared 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 that lasers 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.” 

Chapter 444 

Rickard had never uttered such gentle words. A hint of complexity flashed 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.