A Spoonful of Sugar: Don't Beg for Love novel Chapter 574

If it weren't for Rachael, Benjamin would never have left, let alone chosen to become a deserter.

"By the time Benjamin came back alone with Rachael, Simon had already left home, and Idris Tucker and Lucille Chevalier had already been buried, leaving behind their only child, Nathaniel."

Compared to Matthew, who was suffering from an emotional breakdown at the moment, Hesper was much calmer, so she quickly caught the keyword that came out of Arthur’s mouth. "Alone?"

Arthur nodded and sighed. "No one knows where Matthew’s mother is now, but Benjamin had been looking rather depressed since he came back with Rachael. He later died in a shipwreck abroad. Everyone went on to claim that he died for love."

This was completely different from the version that Matthew had been hearing since he was a child. In his heart, his father died on a mission and was named a hero. But now he was being told by Arthur that his father was not only a deserter but also a murderer who had caused many deaths.

Hesper, noticing that something was wrong with Matthew’s emotions, held his hand.

Seeing this, Arthur also shook his head. "Your father did a lot of right things in his life and saved a lot of people... But perhaps he was still a selfish man in the end."

Many years had passed since that incident, and Arthur himself was a soldier too, so when something like that happened back then, he really wished he could break Benjamin’s leg as a form of punishment.

But a long time had passed, and the hatred and disappointment that he had for his son back then had long dissipated. Thinking about it now, he was just another ordinary man, so what right did he have to hate his son?

Although Hesper was also hearing this story for the first time and did not know much about Matthew’s parents, she could not help but feel that there were many loopholes in this story.

‘Yes, by just looking at this backstory, everything in it revolves around the old scores between the Lanes and the Tuckers... But what does this have to do with Hesper? She's just an orphan. When all these things happened back then, she might not have even been born.’

‘Daybreak’s repeated attempts to get near her show that she must play a very important role in this story’.

During this trip back to Emperion, some doubts were revealed, but the mystery had not completely been solved.

When Hesper and Matthew left the room, both of them were still thinking about what bothered them the most in the story. As soon as Arthur decided to bring all these old events up again, recalling the sorrow and pain from back then was already inevitable. It turned out that everyone indeed needed time to digest and accept the truth.

"Matt... Hessy."