A Spoonful of Sugar: Don't Beg for Love novel Chapter 9

A Spoonful of Sugar: Don’t Beg for Love By Oopsie Daisy Chapter 9

The door of the nursery shut with a loud bang, and the deafening noise startled the baby.

Hesper pursed her lips tightly and held the baby in her arms tighter.

It did not take long before Madam Duval’s caring voice was heard coming from downstairs. “Rickard, it’s getting late. I’m concerned about Juniper going home by herself; it’s not safe. You should send her home.”

Rickard glanced outside and figured that it really was unsafe now that it was dark.

“Let’s go then.”

After both of them got into the car, Juniper asked casually, “Rickard, is Hesper…still bowing down?”

Rickard remembered that Hesper was not bowing down when he went upstairs earlier, so he figured that she would not follow his order to bow down for the rest of the night.

He said with a tinge of anger in his voice, “I can’t be bothered to know. If she wants to bring trouble upon herself, no one can save her.”

“Don’t be angry anymore…” Juniper heaved a sigh of pity, but in her heart, she was overjoyed.

Meanwhile, Hesper was planning to return to her room when Madam Duval and Sophia suddenly barged into the room.

“What do we have here? I knew that you’d act one way to Rickard’s face and another behind his back! My brother ordered you to bow down until tomorrow morning, so said you can stand up?”

“I’m not a criminal, so who are you to treat me this way?”

Hesper was about to stand upright when someone kicked at her back ferociously.

A thud was heard, and she bent over from the pain once again.

Sophia sneered with her arms crossed. “You’re asking us when you’re the one living in our house and spending our money? If you have the courage to get up, I’m going to make my brother hand the child to Juni so that she can raise him. They’re going to be mother and son sooner or later anyway, so just think of it as letting them bond with each other.”

“Don’t you dare!”

Hesper was furious, her face flushing scarlet.

I’m not dead, yet the Duvals are already so keen to look for a stepmother for my child! How can such nonsense exist in this world!

“Try and see if I dare!” Sophia was completely unbothered by her remark. She said with a mocking smile, “Who do you think you are? Do you think that I’m scared of you?”

Madam Duval ridiculed Hesper from the side as well. “Hesper, it was your husband who ordered you to bow down. We’re only asking you to do as he said. If you insist on defying his order, I can only tell this incident to Mr. Duval Sr. so he can decide which side is right.”

Hesper’s entire body shivered.

Madam Duval would not do it so kindly. She was only using this tactic to trigger Mr. Duval Sr. so he would be so infuriated that his health would deteriorate. If anything bad were to happen to Mr. Duval Sr., Hesper would not be able to make peace with herself.

“Don’t startle grandfather, I’ll bow!”

Hesper shut her eyes in pain and did nothing as Madam Duval and her daughter taunted her as they liked from next to her.

Every word they said was akin to a knife that stabbed into her severely hurt heart and lashed onto her unhealed wounds over and over again. She felt so sad and furious that she wanted to die. This was all brought on to her by none other than her husband, whom she loved for so many years. It was Rickard!

If she could do it again, if only she could do it again…

But there was no redo in this world!

Rickard returned by midnight. He glanced in the direction of the nursery and found that it was pitch black. He figured that the woman had already returned to her room to rest.

He headed to the study room as he thought to himself, but he halted to a stop when he walked past Hesper’s bedroom.

The door was not shut tightly.

Hesper had never been so careless to leave her door that way. He furrowed his eyebrows and felt an ominous presentiment in his heart.